Russian hackers hunted journalists in years-long campaign - AP

[Leghorn21]

By RAPHAEL SATTER, JEFF DONN and NATALIYA VASILYEVA
1 hour ago

PARIS (AP) — Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web.

Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses from hundreds of Russians fighting their own lonely struggles with the virus. Now he’d been hacked.

“These were very personal messages,” Lobkov said in a recent interview, describing a frantic call to his lawyer in an abortive effort to stop the spread of nearly 300 pages of Facebook correspondence, including sexually explicit messages. Even two years later, he said, “it’s a very traumatic story.”

The Associated Press found that Lobkov was targeted by the hacking group known as Fancy Bear in March 2015, nine months before his messages were leaked. He was one of at least 200 journalists, publishers and bloggers targeted by the group as early as mid-2014 and as recently as a few months ago.

much more:
https://apnews.com/c3b26c647e794073b7626befa146caad

[Irish_Dem]

1. Putin has been patient and playing the long game here in the US, placing assets

throughout the media and government.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. And in voting precincts, flipping votes on election day all over the country.

Politicians work for him, talk show hosts work for him.

When the names finally come out, everyone will be quite shocked and it will be of course too late.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP has been doing that for a long time on their own.

That is why stealing the American government was so easy, the GOP had laid the groundwork. So for Putin it is like taking candy from a baby. And yes I wonder how how long he has been involved in vote rigging.

I agree 100%, IF the truth ever comes out, it is going to be shocking.
How much we are going to be told, I don't know.

[Tatiana]

4. So we know they have Fox Noise. What other media assets besides RT have they cultivated?

Seems to me that needs to be our next step. Identifying compromised American "journalists."

This is exactly why our media rolled over and gave such "favorable" coverage to Trump.

Thank God Obama was the nominee in 2008. Their attempt to smear him failed exactly because he was new, young, and less well-known compared to Clinton.