BRKG: Romanian Police Catch 'Guccifer'

The hacking spree by “Guccifer,” the online outlaw who has bedeviled Colin Powell, members of the Bush and Rockefeller families, Obama administration officials, and assorted other public figures, has been far more extensive than previously known, The Smoking Gun has learned.

A large cache of documents reveals that the illegal “Guccifer” incursions have victimized scores of other high-profile victims both in the U.S. and overseas during the past year. The hacker has accessed e-mail correspondence, contact lists, phone records, personal photos, online storage sites, and a wide range of confidential financial documents, including credit card, banking, and investment statements.

The newest roster of “Guccifer” victims includes entertainers, industrialists, academics, diplomats, financiers, government and military officials, and journalists--most of whom likely have no idea that the hacker has illegally prowled through their online accounts. With few discernible patterns, “Guccifer” has hopscotched between the accounts of victims like comedian Steve Martin; editor Tina Brown (seen below); ex-Nixon aide John Dean; author Kitty Kelley; actress Mariel Hemingway; three members of the UK’s House of Lords; a former Air Force secretary; the CEO/chairman of MetLife, the $60 billion insurance conglomerate; a Pulitzer Prize winner; the director of Romania’s domestic intelligence service; and a Gibson Dunn partner with the improbably Dickensian name Cantwell F. Muckenfuss III.

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Authorities have caught the Romanian hacker, known as Guccifer, who allegedly broke into the email accounts of several high level individuals including former US secretary of state Colin Powell.

Caught in the Romanian city of Arad, where he lived, Marcel Lazăr Lehel, is believed to have also hacked the email accounts of several Romanian individuals, including the head of the Romanian Intelligence Service SRI, George Maior.

He is also believed to have hacked into the accounts of US public figures such as Colin Powell, members of the Bush and Rockefeller families, and officials of the Obama administration.

Romanian authorities collaborated with US services to catch him.

Last Edited by Sleeping Giant on 01/22/2014 11:23 AM

I was just going to post this thread! Awesome post!

The message takes a really long time to download... be patient. I am sure the server is busy. This is HUGE news!

Free Guccifer.

i don't think it will be huge news ... it will be sweapt under the carpet.... think about it if the masses find out how unsafe their safe email accounts are ... you won't send everything through it that will allow the NSA to snoop on you .....

Good point, and most people don't know who Guccifer is anyway