Suspected Bush family hacker Guccifer to be extradited to US

Lazar was indicted in June 2014 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, accused of hacking into the e-mail and social media accounts of high-profile victims including a family member of two former US presidents, a former US Cabinet member, a former member of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a former presidential adviser.

According to the indictment, Lazar used the online aliases Guccifer and Micul Fum – Little Fume in English. He faces charges of wire fraud, unauthorised access to a computer system, aggravated identity theft, cyberstalking and obstruction of justice.

While the indictment doesn’t name the victims, Guccifer is known to have passed documents, pictures and information to the media that were stolen from the e-mail accounts of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell and several members and friends of the Bush family, including Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of 41st US President George H.W. Bush and sister of 43rd US President George W. Bush.

Lazar was arrested  in Romania in January 2014 for hacking into the personal e-mail accounts of local public figures, including the former head of the Romanian Intelligence Service George Maior. In June that year he was sentenced to four years in prison for those offenses.

At the time the hacker was already on a six-year supervised release after receiving a three-year suspended prison sentence in 2012 for hacking into the e-mail accounts of other Romanian celebrities.