Ukrainian hackers say they have compromised Russian spy who hacked Democrats in 2016

Ukrainian hackers claim to have broken into the emails of a senior Russian military spy wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior US Democrats ahead of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency in 2016.

In a message posted to Telegram on Monday, a group calling itself Cyber Resistance said it had stolen correspondence from Lt Col Sergey Morgachev, who was charged in 2018 with helping organise the hack and leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign.

Reuters was not immediately able to fully corroborate the claim, but some of Morgachev’s purported personal information – which the hackers shared with the Ukrainian publication InformNapalm –