When Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai asked Guccifer 2.0 to speak Romanian, the few sentences that came back were filled with mistakes. “It would suggest to us that the operators of the Guccifer 2.0 persona were not the actors who breached the DNC,” she said. DNC emails leaked by Guccifer 2.0 caused immense embarrassment ahead of the Democratic national convention. Crowdstrike associates Fancy Bear with other Russian intrusions, notably one into the German Bundestag in May and another into French television network TV5 Monde. Guccifer 2.0 had always claimed to be Romanian like the original Guccifer, imprisoned hacker Marcel Lazăr Lehel, but the 2.0 version had regularly communicated with journalists in Russian.

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2016 22:05 UTC