Payback? Russia Gets Hacked, Revealing Putin Aide's Secrets
(sort of election related)
Karma, it turns out, is a borscht.
A Ukrainian group calling itself Cyber Hunta has released more than a gigabyte of emails and other material from the office of one of Vladimir Putin's top aides, Vladislav Surkov, that show Russia's fingerprints all over the separatist movement in Ukraine.
While the Kremlin has denied the relationship between Moscow and the separatists, the emails show in great detail how Russia controlled virtually every detail of the separatist effort in the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine, which has torn the country apart and led to a Russian takeover of Crimea.
And unlike the reported Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee, the Ukrainian hack reached deep into the office of the Russian president.
"This is a serious hack," said Maks Czuperski, head of the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council (DFRL), which has searched through the email dump and placed selected emails on-line.
We have seen so much happen to the United States, other countries at the hands of Russia," said Czuperski. "Not so much to Russia. It was only a question of time that some of the anonymous guys like Cyber Hunta would come to strike them back."
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Payback? Russia Gets Hacked, Revealing Putin Aide's Secrets
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"Do svedaniya".
Sorry! 
US government officials are saying we had nothing to do with it, and I believe them. The reason I believe them is that I don't believe we will advertise our cyber attacks after they are launched. But we will know that Putin knows that we are behind them and that we are sending a message - this is a warning - don't try that shit again or next time it will be a lot worse. 
If cyber warfare breaks out, I doubt you will read about in the New York Times unless it get totally out of hand and one nation or another takes out the others power grid of something like that. Sooner or later everyone have to back off - it will be like nuclear weapons that never get used - everyone will be afraid of mutually assured destruction.
