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WORD FORM 06

RUSSIAN HACKING GROUP'S 'LAST MEMBER AT LIBERTY' COMES OUT OF

THE SHADOWS

Wearing a Christmas jumper (1) __________ (blaze) with reindeer, Alexander sits in a bar in

Riga. He has a remarkable story to tell. After several years hiding in the shadows, he is, or at least

claims to be, the last member still at large of Russia’s most (2) ________ (fame) band of hackers and

leakers.

Shaltai-Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, terrorised Russian officials for nearly three years,

combining hacking, leaking and extortion, while retaining an (3) ___________ (penetrate) cloak of

anonymity. The group would post online samples of emails from officials they had hacked, and put

the rest of the cache up for sale: the (4) ___________ (criminal) information could then either be

bought back by the original sender, or snapped up by enemies.

But in mid-December, Shaltai-Boltai’s sardonic Twitter feed suddenly went quiet, and in late

January Russian media claimed the group’s founder, named as Vladimir Anikeyev, had been

arrested. The case took on an extra layer of intrigue when it was reported that two of Russia’s top

(5) __________ (secure) agents at the FSB had also been arrested, along with an expert from Russian

firm Kaspersky Lab.

Sources briefed Russian media (6) _________ (let) that the FSB security officers were accused

of working for the CIA, and linked the case to Shaltai-Boltai. Coming so soon after US intelligence

pointed fingers at Russian intelligence for hacking the Democratic party, as part of an attempt to

help get Donald Trump elected, the arrests raised eyebrows. Was Shaltai-Boltai a conduit for

passing information to the CIA, or was the meshing of the two cases a way of obscuring the real

truth about why the FSB agents were in trouble? The rumour mill went into (7) _________ (drive),

and each day brought fresh leaks and new theories, with varying degrees of (8) ________ (plausible).