One of the individuals maintaining Guccifer 2.0’s social media presence forgot to use a virtual private network to access a US-based social media platform, thus leaving an Internet Protocol address located in Moscow in the service’s logs. Working from that address, a source told the Daily Beast’s Spencer Ackerman and Kevin Poulsen that analysts were able to dig deeper and associate Guccifer 2.0 with a single individual: “a GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow,”
Rly? We don’t really encourage global intelligence agencies trying to subvert user freedoms to use Whonix but doing so might have helped in this situation… Just sayin’…
Apparently, the operation was handed off to a more senior GRU officer with better English skills (and worse infosec ability). +1 “Privacy by default”.