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Russian Intelligence Officers Indicted Of Attacks On US Democray by DilyAtlantis: 8:28am On Jul 24, 2018
12 Russian intelligence officers were on July 14,2018 indicted by the U.S Department of Justice for using Bitcoin to fund their hacking operations on 2016 U.S presidential elections.

The 12 agents carried out several attacks in view to influence the 2016 U.S presidential elections. It was reported they mined bitcoins to fund the attacks. The indictment first count “Conspiracy to Commit an Offense Against the United States”. The agents were charged for staging cyber attacks that included the staged releases of documents hacked.

The charges states:
The Defendants conspired to launder more than $95,000 through a Web of transactions structured to capitalize on the perceived anonymity of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.

The agents reportedly used U.S. dollars and other fiat currencies to achieve their objectives. Indictment states the “agents used Bitcoin to carry out their activities such as buying servers, registering domain names, and making payments in furtherance of hacking activities”.

The agents were funded from an unnamed online cryptocurrency service for the registration of the domain dcleaks.com and the leasing of a server registered with the operational email account dirbinsaabol@mail.com.

The Russian intelligence agents received Bitcoin payments with the username “gfade147” from several email accounts.

Read more here: https://cointelegram.co/russian-intelligence-officers-indicted-of-using-bitcoin-to-fund-attacks-on-us-democray/

Re: Russian Intelligence Officers Indicted Of Attacks On US Democray by bedspread: 8:40am On Jul 24, 2018
Good one...
But they did not affect the USA votes..

Trump won by THE HAND OF GOD....
Re: Russian Intelligence Officers Indicted Of Attacks On US Democray by bedspread: 8:41am On Jul 24, 2018
Good one...
But they did not affect the USA votes..

Trump won by THE HAND OF GOD....

Argue with The Ancient of Days

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