A former adviser to trump confessed to having links with the hacker who leaked the correspondence of Democrats
Roger stone, former Advisor to Donald trump’s period of U.S. presidential elections stated that he perepisovatsya with the hacker Guccifer 2.0. This programmer is known that in June 2016, he has claimed responsibility for hacking the servers of the National Committee of the US Democratic party and leaked confidential letters of politicians in the Network. About this reports Deutsche Welle.
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According to the former adviser, he shared with Guccifer 2.0 message on Twitter a few weeks after a hacker attack on the servers of the Democrats.
However, stone argues that the conversation with the programmer was “absolutely harmless.”
“The conversation was so superficial, short and banal that I forgot about him,” explained stone.
It is noted that in correspondence hacker thanked stone for an article on the Internet portal Breitbart News, which says that the attack on the servers of the Democrats did Guccifer 2.0 and not Russian cybercriminals.
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In turn, the former adviser replied to the hacker that “glad” to restore their account after a short lock.
We will remind, earlier Director of us intelligence James Clapper expressed confidence that the Russian authorities are behind the theft of letters to American politicians and institutions, and that these actions, as well as the burglary, carried out under the name of the hacker Guccifer 2.0, was aimed at intervention in the electoral process in the United States.