The RUH8 hacker said they would release more Surkov emails in around a week, adding that they also had some information relating to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov that they would release at a later stage. In a February 2016 email, Donetsk separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko thanks Surkov for his help in building an independent state in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region. The press service for Russia's presidential administration did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the authenticity of the emails. In an article on website Medium, Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab said evidence suggested the leaked Surkov emails are authentic, although their volume - there are more than 3500 - makes it hard to verify each one individually. "Ukrainian hacking groups have fairly high technical skills and so there is no need for the US or any other Nato country to support us.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 03, 2016 22:18 UTC