https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npvd/guccifer-2-playboy-robbin-young-twitter-sexting

In the early summer of 2016, the world was a much simpler place. Then, the Democratic National Committee got hacked, and someone calling themselves Guccifer 2.0 came out of nowhere claiming to be the culprit of the high-profile breach.

I remember thinking at the time: I’ve seen this movie before. There’s a data breach, and some hacker with a colorful name claims responsibility. But things got weirder once I started talking to Guccifer 2.0. For one, the hacker claimed to be Romanian, but they couldn’t really speak Romanian. And a large number of respected security researchers at that point were already accusing Guccifer 2.0 of being part of a sloppy attempt by the Russian government to cover up their own hack.