Twitter has reinstated a suspended account that publicised leaked personal data belonging to Democrat politicians.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0” released contact details of 193 current and ex-Congress members.<\/p>\n
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi later told colleagues she had received “obscene and sick calls” after her phone number was leaked.<\/p>\n
Twitter declined to comment on the reasons for the suspension and subsequent reinstatement.<\/p>\n
WordPress also blocked some content on Guccifer’s blog which has not been reinstated.<\/p>\n
The episode is the latest in a series of leaks of Democratic Party data claimed by Guccifer – including a dump of more than 19,000 emails from Democratic National Committee (DNC) members, which was published via whistle-blowing website Wikileaks in July.<\/p>\n
Technical analysis of that leak revealed some suggestions that the source had links to Russia – and US intelligence officials have also asserted such a link.<\/p>\n
However, Guccifer has denied accusations that he or she is associated with the Russian state.<\/p>\n
Upon returning to Twitter, Guccifer tweeted: “Here I am! They’ll have to try much harder to block me!”<\/p>\n
Twitter declined to comment on the reasons for the suspension and subsequent reinstatement.<\/p>\n
‘Obscene calls’<\/strong><\/p>\n “I am changing my phone number, and I advise you to do so as well,” senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to party colleagues.<\/p>\n “On a personal note, I was in the air flying from Florida to California when the news broke.<\/p>\n “Upon landing, I have received scores of mostly obscene and sick calls, voicemails and text messages.”<\/p>\n Besides contact information, the latest leak contained documents relating to the election campaign and details about some Democratic politicians’ staff members.<\/p>\n The FBI is leading an investigation into the leaks.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twitter has reinstated a suspended account that publicised leaked personal data belonging to Democrat politicians. On Friday, the hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0” released contact details of 193 current and ex-Congress members. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi later told colleagues she had received “obscene and sick calls” after her phone number was leaked. Twitter declined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":239609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n