DNC hacker Guccifer 2.0 makes VPN mistake revealing they're a 'member of Russian military intelligence'

Sooraj Shah
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Hacker mistakenly left a Moscow IP address in server logs of US social media company

Guccifer 2.0, the hacker supposedly responsible for hacking into the Democratic National Committee computer network, who claimed to be Romanian, has been outed as working from Moscow, most likely f...

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