Shoot for the moon Even if you miss, you will land among the stars 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) Fanpage: https://facebook.com/iloveambrosia Email: ambrosiaontop@gmail.com