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After disappearing for a couple of weeks, the hacker \u201cGuccifer 2.0\u201d<\/a> returned late this afternoon to provide a new headache for Democrats.<\/p>\n In a post to his WordPress blog, the vandal–who previously provided nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee e-mails to Wikileaks–uploaded an Excel file that includes the cell phone numbers and private e-mail addresses of nearly every Democratic member of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n The Excel file also includes similar contact information for hundreds of congressional staff members (chiefs of staff, press secretaries, legislative directors, schedulers) and campaign personnel.<\/p>\n In announcing the leak of the document, \u201cGuccifer 2.0\u201d reported that the spreadsheet was stolen during a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. \u201cAs you see I wasn\u2019t wasting my time! It was even easier than in the case of the DNC breach,\u201d the hacker wrote.<\/p>\n Along with the Excel file, \u201cGuccifer 2.0\u201d also uploaded documents that included the account names and passwords for an assortment of subscription services used by While \u201cGuccifer 2.0\u201d claims to be Romanian and an \u201cunknown hacker with a laptop,\u201d cybersecurity investigators have concluded that he is part of a Russian intelligence operation that has targeted the DNC, Hillary Clinton campaign staffers, and assorted Republicans<\/a>, including John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Michele Bachmann.<\/p>\n In a message today, the hacker branded the U.S. presidential elections a \u201cfarce\u201d that is \u201cbeing settled behind the scenes as it was with Bernie Sanders.\u201d He added, \u201cI wonder what happened to the true democracy, to the equal opportunities, the things we love the United States for. The big money bags are fighting for power today. They are lying constantly and don\u2019t keep their word. The MSM are producing tons of propaganda\u00a0 hiding the real stuff behind it. But I do believe that people have right to know what\u2019s going on inside the election process in fact.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGuccifer 2.0\u201d also invited reporters to contact him via Twitter direct message: \u201cDear journalists, you may send me a DM if you\u2019re interested in exclusive materials from the DCCC, which I have plenty of.\u201d<\/p>\n The FBI is investigating the DNC and DCCC hacks along with attempts to compromise the Gmail accounts of Clinton campaign staffers through the use of \u201cspear phishing\u201d e-mails (as detailed in a TSG story published this morning<\/a>).<\/p>\n In a series of e-mail exchanges last month, “Guccifer 2.0” described himself as a committed “hacktivist” and bristled at TSG’s portrayal of him as a thief. “Stop calling me the vandal,” he wrote. “I’m not a criminal I’m a freedom fighter.” While “Guccifer 2.0” claimed to be a foe of “all the illuminati and rich clans which try to rule the governments,” cyber investigators theorize that he may actually just be serving as the media liaison for the Russian government hacking teams suspected of breaching the Democratic Party’s computer systems.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/thesmokinggun.com\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/g2logotype.jpg\")
the DCCC, from Lexis-Nexis to Glenn Beck\u2019s web site (password: nutbag).<\/p>\n