Putin’s elite ‘Fancy Bear’ cyber warfare chief bombarded with sex toys after his personal email is HACKED
A SENIOR Russian military spy has been inundated with sex toys after his personal email was hacked.
Ukrainian hackers claimed they gained access to the account of Sergey Morgachev, Putin's Lieutenant Colonel at Moscow's military intelligence service, GRU.
Morgachev was believed to have been in charge of Russia's notorious hackers known as Fancy Bear or "APT28".
A group calling itself Cyber Resistance posted on Telegram that it had successfully hacked into Morgachev's email, according to open-source intelligence site Inform Napalm.
The hackers claimed they managed to obtain personal information including copies of Morgachev’s driver’s license and lease agreements, as well as family photos and scanned copies of security clearance renewal applications.
And in an embarrassing twist, the hackers accessed Mogachev's AliExpress account and ordered several sex toys and gay pride flags in his name, as "a symbolic act of moral humiliation."
In its message announcing the theft, the group said of Morgachev: "A very cool and clever hacker, but... We hacked him."
Stefan Soesanto, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who has studied Ukrainian hacking groups, said the leak "looks pretty credible."
Morgachev is wanted by the FBI for his role in hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior US Democrats ahead of Donald Trump's election to the presidency in 2016.
Info Nampalm reported that the breach had confirmed Morgachev's identity by going through stolen personnel files including one document that identified him as a department head in Unit 26165 - the same position which the FBI accused him of holding in 2018.
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A federal indictment filed by the Department of Justice states that Morgachev and GRU "knowingly and intentionally conspired… to gain unauthorized access into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
In its indictment, the FBI described him as an officer in Russia's military spy agency, still known by its old acronym, GRU.
It said his department was "dedicated to developing and managing malware," including the "X-Agent" spy software used to hack the DNC.
And in 2020, Microsoft revealed that the Russian hacker group had targeted the US election, launching hacking attacks on people in the Trump and Biden campaigns.