Hackers humiliate Putins Fancy Bear cyber-warfare boss with dildo delivery

A Russian army chief has been sent dozens of sex toys and gay pride flags – all paid for on his credit card.

R ussia’s "Fancy Bear" hacker network, also known as "Pawn Storm," is classified by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre as a “highly skilled threat actor” that has infiltrated sensitive networks across the Western World.

But in revenge, Ukrainian hackers have broken into the personal email account of the group’s leader Sergey Morgachev and ordered him a variety of colourful items.

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In a message posted to Telegram on Monday, a group calling itself Cyber Resistance said the lieutenant colonel in the intelligence service, is "a very cool and clever hacker, but… We hacked him!”

The hackers described the bulk sex toy order as as "a symbolic act of moral humiliation."

Morgachev’s APT28 unit was behind the phishing attacks against authorities investigating the 2014 Malaysian Airlines MH17 crash.

The FBI issued an arrest warrant for Morgachev, also accusing him of “a computer hacking conspiracy involving gaining unauthorised access into the computers of US persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, stealing documents from those computers, and staging releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election."

The Ukrainian computer wizards say they managed to obtain various personal documents from Morgachev’s personal computer – including financial documents, family photos and even his driving licence.

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One of the emails they managed to extract from Morgachev’s inbox was a 2018 message from Apple dated 2018 informing him that the FBI had requested copies of his account data in connection with the arrest warrant.

A massive data dump of Morgachev’s personal information was sent to Inform Napalm for publication and it contains a slew of official documents including the lease for his apartment in Moscow, the title documents for his car, and a scan of his passport.

Stefan Soesanto, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who has studied Ukrainian hacking groups, said that having reviewed the information published by the hackers, the group’s claim "looks pretty credible.”

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