- Suspected Russia-linked cyber spy Guccifer 2.0 edited a document to make it more alluring before publishing it during last year's presidential campaign.
- The word "confidential" was photoshopped on screenshots of several pages of the document.
- The revelation that Guccifer altered the document comes amid the FBI and Congress' wide-ranging investigations into Russia's election interference.
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Suspected Russian cyber spy Guccifer 2.0 altered a DNC document before releasing it
The revelation that Guccifer altered the document comes amid the FBI and Congress' wide-ranging investigations into Russia's election interference.
The first document leaked by self-proclaimed hacker Guccifer 2.0 was edited to include the word "confidential," a former Democratic National Committee official told Business Insider on Friday.
The revelation that Guccifer altered the document, comes
President Donald Trump's former campaign adviser and longtime confidante Roger Stone said he exchanged private messages with Guccifer 2.0 last year after writing an article for Breitbart calling Guccifer 2.0 "the real deal."
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Stone told Business Insider on Friday that he had "revised" his assessment of the self-described hacker "some time ago."
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