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> "All share similar social media photos that are nearly identical to a passport photo of Maksim Donakov, who is the individual behind Paranoy777" I don't get

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  I get how it's possible. I get less why a hacker would create multiple social media accounts to conceal identity and use something “nearly identical to their own passport photo as a profile pic on all of them. OTOH, real criminals are caught all the time because they did things that seem unbelievably stupid when described, so I'm not discounting the possibility that's it's true, just saying it seems odd...
  • toomuchtodo 8y ago
    People get sloppy. A Russian GRU operation in Europe was discovered (reported on within the last 6 weeks) because all of the operatives used the same address for vehicle registrations. > All 305 names had passport numbers and, in most cases, mobile telephone numbers attached. All information can be found on the publicly-available automobile registration database. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/05/putins-spies-new-humiliation-sloppy-procedures-allow-305-gru/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/05/putins-spies-new...
    • sdwisely 8y ago
      wow, I thought you were talking about a normal size household. 300+ of them were registered to the same address.