Leaked data has revealed intimate details about the officials and businessmen surrounding Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Sputnik/Reuters
Analysis: trade in stolen data is a boon for investigators and a headache for Kremlin
In early 2019, the journalist Andrei Zakharov managed to buy his own phone and banking records in a groundbreaking investigation into Russia’s thriving markets in stolen personal data, in which law enforcement and telecoms employees can be contracted anonymously to dip into their systems and pull out sensitive details on anyone.
A year and a half later, investigators from Bellingcat and the Insider used some of the same tools and clever analysis to out a secret FSB team that had been tasked with killing Alexei Navalny using a novichok nerve agent.
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WNU Editor: It appears that Russia's intelligence agencies are operating under rules that were efective and standard 30 years ago but are totally ineffective in today's internet age.
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It looks like pretty much everyone has this type of issue. Someone could also use a "hack" or a "security breach" as an excuse to target someone they don't like. The recent hack of "SolarWinds" is a potential case in point. Russia has been named as the primary culprit so far. I suspect that other countries such as China will be named as well. This will then the be used as a rationale for aggressive actions against both of those countries up to the possibility of a direct military conflict. Remember economic sanctions against nations or powerful individuals within those countries are acts of war and will be treated as such by the countries who are targeted. As such, before taking any action against Russia, China, or anyone else in regards to this evidence that the targeted countries were behind the hack, the evidence will need to be evaluated and part of this evaluation will need to be an explanation of how this was determined. Absent this retaliation cannot be supported.
Of additional consideration is going to be the perceived need of the Biden Administration to appear tough. I would expect them to take provocative actions against any number of major world powers including China and Russia. The SolarWinds situation may just provide them the cover they need to do such things.
Trump's twitter account didn't even need to get hack to get in.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55337192
Trump's twitter account is an unclas system.
All you have is the word of a self-aggrandizing hacker, whose explanation the police accepted uncritically.
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