1 What happened? The Finnish researcher Pekka Kallioniyi, who studies Russian propaganda and misinformation, said on the network 𝕏 that the US Minister of Defense, Piashe Highset, has Russian e -mail – (email Protected). The expert found out thanks to a long leakage of public databases – from 2016 (we will talk more about it below) .2 It is definitely a hegset username – Phegseth? Yes. And quite old – at least since studying in Princeton. Like the rest of the students who passed the course of computer sciences, in the spring of 2000, the hegset had its own post office (email protected) and the personal page of www.princeton.edu/~phegseth. The userneums of the future minister and his fellow students always consisted of various combinations of the surname, name or initials. Then the hegset acquired Google mail (email protected). This address can still be found on the website of the National Review, where he published his texts in 2008-2016. On The Daily Caller, its mail is indicated. In 2019, creating a link to collect the donates to the school in which his children studied, Hegset again used the name of the user Phegseth. 3 No, such a mail on Mail.ru could register anyone? At first glance, yes, it is. Actually, the propagandist Timofei Vi turned this, who calls himself an “international expert on anti -crisis communications and the fight against misinformation.” After the publication of the post of the Finnish researcher, he registered the mailbox (email protected) and began to publish letters on his blog, who began to come from correspondents who believe that they were corresponding with the Minister of Defense, or checking this assumption. 5 Accense abandoned boxes are “released” so much? Mail addresses @mail.ru are no longer deleted – only blocks. And in the user agreement it is clearly stated that the blocked or abandoned addresses will not re -used: the service does not provide for the possibility of re -registering an electronic mailbox with a similar unique name, including after the period specified in this paragraph. User security rates. So that after removing the box, the attacker could not create a new address for himself, but in fact with your freed name. This is dangerous, since on many sites and services the restoration of a forgotten password is tied to the email address. Having lost control of the old address, you can lose access or even your data. Do not forget to change the old mail to a new one and always use two -factor authentication, if there is such an opportunity. But it was not always. In the summer of 2010, Mail.ru explained how the vacant name of the mailbox can be re -disposed of: if the entered password is the right, the mailbox removed by you will be freed from the contents, access to it will be blocked, the name of the remote mailbox will be free no earlier than three months after the box removal. In 2011, the company’s employees claimed that the postal boxes stopped the mailboxes To remove just from the 2010th.6A there is generally at least some evidence that it was a hegset post? Yes. Thanks to the giant leak of login and passwords Exploit.in, which appeared in October 2016. We do not know, this archive of almost 600 million addresses of emails and passwords was formed. But there you can find only three addresses with the name of the Phegseth user: and all three addresses have the same password. 7 something like Password123? No, the password is quite rare-MLS71881. In the comments on the post of Finnish researcher, users 𝕏 immediately suggested that the initials of the first wife’s first wife and her birthday were encoded here, recorded in the American tradition (i.e. July 18, 1981). Schwartz (Meredith Schwarz) and Hegset, born in 1980, were familiar from school. In the web archive, a copy of the personal page of the hegset, which he started in Princeton, has been preserved. There he called the future wife of Meredith Leigh. That is, its full name is the Meredith Leigh Schwarz, and the initials are just MLS. In December 2008, the first wife filed for divorce with a hash. We do not know how long he continued to use this password after the divorce. Denis Dmitriev (Tagstotranslate) News
