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Ex-KGB Hackers to Blame?

Date December 8, 2009 - Email This Post Email This Post -


According to the British newspaper the Independent,

The computer hack, said a senior member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, was not an amateur job, but a highly sophisticated, politically motivated operation. And others went further. The guiding hand behind the leaks, the allegation went, was that of the Russian secret services.
Now that's an interesting allegation. But what's the evidence of ex-KGB members' involvement? Well, the hacked emails were first posted on a server of a firm called Tomcity, in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Tomcity is an internet security firm known for harboring hackers.


Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), which is comprised largely of ex-KGB officers, has been proven to "invest significant resources in hackers" and there's been much speculation that the agency works with Tomcity in online espionage. According to the Independent, "the Tomsk office has a record of issuing statements congratulating local students on hacks aimed at anti-Russian voices," in which the FSB is thought to have a guiding hand.

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