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UAE Ambassador’s Emails Hacked: Imp Documents Leaked
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A hacker group calling itself "GlobalLeaks" has begun distributing hacked emails stolen from the inbox of Yousef Al Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates' ambassador to the United States.
The hackers reached out to The Daily Beast in email this week to offer a sample of the messages they claimed demonstrated "how a small rich country/company used lobbyists to hurt American interests and those of its allies." The leaks, they said, "reveal how millions of dollars were used to hurt reputation of American allies and cause policy change." The leakers said they plan to publish the material themselves on Saturday.
The sample is comprised of 55 pages of documents that appear to have been printed out and recaptured by a digital camera. The leakers claimed the documents had been provided to them by a paid whistleblower embedded in a Washington, D.C., lobbyist group, though it's clear from even a cursory examination that they were printed out from Al Otaiba's Hotmail account. The earliest message in the sample dates to 2014, and the most recent is from last month.
Embassy spokeswoman Lamiyae Jbari confirmed that the Hotmail address in the emails belongs to Al Otaiba, and said The Daily Beast's phone call was the first the embassy had heard of the account being hacked and the contents leaked. "I'm sure you're not the only one who received it," she added.
The identity of the "GlobalLeaks" hackers-who have no relation to the open source whistleblowing project by the same name-is uncertain. They contacted The Daily Beast from a free account at a Russian email provider, and the subject line of their emails read "DC Leaks- The Lobbyist Edition Part 1"-a reference to the DC Leaks website established one year ago this month to publish stolen emails belonging to several prominent U.S. officials, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to a US intelligence assessment, DC Leaks was a false front set up by the Russian government as part of the same influence operation that targeted Hillary Clinton in the election.
The excerpts provided to The Daily Beast include several emails between Al Otaiba and former Obama War Secretary Robert Gates, who's now a principal at RiceHadleyGates, an influential Washington consulting firm that counts companies like ExxonMobil as clients.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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