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intelligence officials expressed “confidence” that the Russian government directed the leak of Clinton-related e-mails and that the hack was “consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts.” The careful phrasing does not amount to beyond-a-reasonable-doubt attribution, which, I suspect, is not possible. Democrats’ servers, too, though that, despite the Clinton team’s insistence, has not been confirmed. Putin’s security services may have messed with the U.S. (Alexei Nikolsky/SPUTNIK, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) One of the people suspected of working on behalf of the Kremlin, Germany-based Sergei Maksimov, received a suspended sentence and a fine from a Bonn court last year for breaking into the social media and e-mail accounts of Putin foes. Instead, he appears to have used similar tactics against his opponents. Nor has Putin tried to link Anonymous International with a foreign government. Last month, Anonymous International released material from the pro-Putin propaganda holding News Media. The Kremlin hasn’t been able to silence the Russian-speaking hacking team. For example, the e-mails of Kremlin staffer Timur Prokopenko exposed a history of pressure on Russian media and the systematic subversion of some news outlets. The revelations they contained were often more embarrassing than those that emerged from the Democratic National Committee hack or the e-mails of Clinton aide John Podesta. They have even hacked the Kremlin and the Russian government: A group known as Anonymous International or Shaltai-Boltai has revealed, time after time, e-mails and other confidential documents from the domestic policy department of President Vladimir Putin’s administration, as well as those belonging to ministers and aides to Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Their skill is inversely proportional to their well-being, and their lack of opportunity often makes them angry, cynical and vindictive. Russian hackers (and East European ones in general) are dangerous. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.