The Kremlin has denied that Ukrainian hacktivists broke into the email address of one of President Vladimir Putin’s top aides, claiming “he does not use email,” Russian news agency Interfax reports.
The alleged hack, released by a Ukrainian group calling itself Cyber Hunta, published over 2,000 emails from what they claim to be the government email of Putin’s so-called “grey cardinal” Vladislav Surkov. Surkov has held a number of top positions in the government and presidential administrations since the 1990s and is currently working with Putin in a more advisory capacity.
While the bulk of the emails are newsletters, mundane …read more
Source: Newsweek