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Undated: DCLeaks
(also known as DC Leaks) is a website that was established in June 2016. Since its creation, it has been responsible for publishing leaks of emails belonging to multiple prominent figures in the United States government and military. Cybersecurity research firms say the site is a front for the Russian cyber-espionage group Fancy Bear. On July 13, 2018, an indictment was made against 12 Russian GRU military officers; it alleges that DC Leaks is part of a Russian military operation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCLeaks

Undated: Bitcoin
() is a cryptocurrency, a form of electronic cash.[8] It is the world's first decentralized digital currency, and it was designed to work without a central bank or single administrator.[8]:1[9]:3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

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Undated:
"Guccifer 2.0" is a persona operated by Russian military intelligence (GRU)[1] which claimed to be the hacker(s) that hacked into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer network and then leaked its documents to the media,[2][3] the website WikiLeaks,[4][5][6][7][8] and a conference event.[9] Some of the documents Guccifer 2.0 released to the media appear to be forgeries cobbled together from public information and previous hacks, which had been salted with disinformation.[10][11][12] On July 13, 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 GRU agents for allegedly perpetrating the cyberattacks.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0

Undated: IN THE pantheon of Russian intelligence, the KGB is king. It fills the ranks of cinematic and literary villains, from John Le Carré’s spymaster Karla to the sleeper agents of “The Americans”, a TV show. But a different set of spies is now hogging the limelight. The GRU, the intelligence arm of Russia’s armed forces, has been caught up in almost all the crises involving the country in recent years, from the annexation of Crimea, to the downing of a passenger aircraft over Ukraine, to the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a former spy, in Salisbury.
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/09/11/what-is-the-gru

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June 8:
Russian Government Hackers Launch DCLeaks website
https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/russian-government-hackers-launch-dcleaks-website/

August 11:
Russian Hackers Reportedly Tried “DC Leaks” Site to Leak Emails Before Moving on to WikiLeaks
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/russian-hackers-tried-dc-leaks-site-for-emails-before-wikileaks.html

August 12:
ThreatConnect Identifies DCLeaks As Another Russian-backed Influence Outlet
https://threatconnect.com/blog/does-a-bear-leak-in-the-woods/

October 6: DC Leaks Website Releases Hacked Clinton State Department Documents
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/dc-leaks-website-releases-hacked-clinton-state-department-documents/

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September 7:
The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html

November 7:
FBI leaves US targets of Russian hackers in the dark

The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year that the targets were in the Kremlin’s crosshairs, The Associated Press has found.

Nearly 80 interviews with Americans targeted by Fancy Bear, a Russian government-aligned cyberespionage group, turned up only two cases in which the FBI had provided a heads-up. Even senior policymakers discovered they were targets only when the AP told them, a situation some described as bizarre and dispiriting.

The FBI declined to discuss its investigation into Fancy Bear’s spying campaign, but did provide a statement that said in part: “The FBI routinely notifies individuals and organizations of potential threat information.”

Three people familiar with the matter — including a current and a former government official — said the FBI has known for more than a year the details of Fancy Bear’s attempts to break into Gmail inboxes. A senior FBI official, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the hacking operation because of its sensitivity, declined to comment on when it received the target list, but said the bureau was overwhelmed by the sheer number of attempted hacks.

“It’s a matter of triaging to the best of our ability the volume of the targets who are out there,” he said.

The AP did its own triage, dedicating two months and a small team of reporters to go through a hit list of Fancy Bear targets provided by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks.

Previous AP investigations based on the list have shown how Fancy Bear worked in close alignment with the Kremlin’s interests to steal tens of thousands of emails from the Democratic Party . The hacking campaign disrupted the 2016 U.S. election and cast a shadow over the presidency of Donald Trump, whom U.S. intelligence agencies say the hackers were trying to help . The Russian government has denied interfering in the American election.
https://www.apnews.com/eb4df4898e334654a28de14dbfa7ab94

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July 13: Mueller indicts 12 Russian military officers for election hacking, says DCLeaks & Guccifer 2.0 were Russia intel
https://boingboing.net/2018/07/13/indictment-friday.html

July 13: As Mister Trump and his wife greeted the Queen of England, a reporter on a hot mic broke the embargo that the U.S. is indicting 12 Russian military officers with attacks on the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections, and that Guccifer 2.0 and DC LEAKS were Russian intelligence missions.

"Both were created and controlled by Russia's GRU," said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, announcing the indictments just after noon in Washington on Friday.

The U.S. Department of Justice is indicting 12 Russian military intelligence officers, members of Vladimir Putin's government, on charges they hacked Democratic National Committee servers in the run-up to the 2016 elections.

The news comes just two days before Trump is to sit alone with Vladimir Putin at the weirdest summit in American presidential history, on Monday.

Vladimir Putin is a former KGB officer.
https://boingboing.net/2018/07/13/indictment-friday.html

July 13: DCLeaks And Russian Hackers: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

The DCLeaks Facebook Page, Registered to an Imaginary Person Named Alice Donovan, Was Launched in June 2016

... GRU agents also used other pre-existing social media accounts, all registered to fictitious names, to promote DCLeaks. The indictment says the fictitious names included “Jason Scott” and Richard Gingrey.”
https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/dcleaks-russian-hackers/

July 13: How Russian Spies Hid Behind Bitcoin in Hacking Campaign

In early 2016, Russian intelligence officers obtained a new pool of the virtual currency Bitcoin. They quickly put the digital money to work.

The Russian spies used some of the Bitcoins to pay for the registration of a website, dcleaks.com, where they would later post emails that had been stolen from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. When the operatives needed a computer server to host the dcleaks site, they paid for that with Bitcoins as well.

The transactions were detailed in an indictment on Friday from the Justice Department, in which prosecutors accused 12 Russian operatives of interfering in the 2016 presidential campaign through a sophisticated hacking scheme.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/technology/bitcoin-russian-hacking.html

July 14: A day after an indictment from Special Counsel Robert Mueller identified Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks as fronts for influence campaigns staged by Russian operatives, Twitter has suspended their accounts.

“The account has been suspended for being connected to a network of accounts previously suspended for operating in violation of our rules,” a Twitter spokesman told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

The accounts haven't been used for more than a year. 
https://www.scmagazine.com/twitter-suspends-guccifer-20-dcleaks-accounts/article/780820/

July 27: How they did it (and will likely try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/from-bitly-to-x-agent-how-gru-hackers-targeted-the-2016-presidential-election/3/

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