The following article by Raphael Satter, Jeff Donn and Nataliya Vasilyeva was posted on the Associated Press website December 22, 2017:
PARIS (AP) — Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web.
Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses from hundreds of Russians fighting their own lonely struggles with the virus. Now he’d been hacked. Continue reading “Russian hackers hunted journalists in years-long campaign”