​The “stage” name Guccifer” is a combination of Gucci and Lucifer, and the Romanian hacker, who served more than four years in prison, is known for “hacking” Hillary Clinton’s secret email account. In an interview with The Intercept, the Romanian, who returned to the country, talked about his life in Romania and how he now looks at the crimes committed in the last 10 years.

Hacker returned home to Arad after more than eight years and four years and four months in prison. He says he is in a period where he is getting used to his family (wife and daughter) and trying to make up for so many lost years. The wife supports the family, works at a factory, and in her free time reads about US politics and writes a book about her life. “It’s like an out-of-body experience, like Guccifer is another person. I’m trying to figure out what my other self was doing ten years ago.”

He says that “the whole Guccifer project” was a failure, but at least the name was inspired, especially since a Russian hacker who became famous, with whom he had no connection, took the name “Guccifer 2.0”.

When asked if he was upset that a Russian hacker used his pseudonym, the Romanian said that he learned about it in prison and felt proud. “I was fine because I’d been fighting this fight alone for ten years.”

He used the term “struggle” several times, referring to the “crusade” he personally waged against the American elite, which he saw as extremely corrupt. “Look at the last 20 years of US politics. This is just a lie, the level has dropped a lot. Do you understand what I’m saying? It stinks.” Gucifer explained that while living in Romania and under communism, he looked at the US as a bright, exemplary country, but the coming to power of George W. Bush changed everything for him: “You realize that it’s all a trick.”

Hacker Guccifer is also known for hacking Corina Kretsu’s email account and revealing correspondence between her and former US Secretary of State Colin Powell.

He didn’t talk much about the two prisons in Pennsylvania where he served time, but he said he was repeatedly denied medical care and lost several teeth during those years in prison.

He said he exposed the fact that Hillary Clinton had a secret email account, and although he cooperated with authorities, he still went to jail, while many other politicians he accused of hypocrisy use secret emails .

Guccifer claims that in 2013 he was one step away from hacking the accounts of Donald Trump and his closest circle, including his daughter Ivanka, but the computer stopped working.

He says that while it’s wrong to read someone else’s emails, in Clinton’s case he suspected “bad things” were going on and had to go public with what he found.

The tactics he used: to “hack” e-mails, take as many personal files as possible from there, post them on the Internet and publish the most “syrupy” details in the scandalous media, are now used by a lot of hackers.

Who is Gutsifer?

Marcel Lazer, 51, also known as “Little Smoke”, was handed over to US courts in November 2018 to serve a 52-month sentence handed down by a federal court in Virginia. for identity theft and unauthorized access to a computer.

“Guccifer” was sentenced to prison in 2016 in federal court in Alexandria after pleading guilty to two of nine counts, respectively, of unauthorized access to a secure computer system and theft of identity in a qualified form In the spring of 2016, he was extradited from Romania to the United States pending trial, and in October 2016 he was returned to the country and initially imprisoned in Raghuva.

“Guccifer” was convicted after it was found that he had repeatedly and without authority, in violation of security measures, accessed email accounts belonging to public figures in Romania in order to obtain sensitive data in postal electronic equipment. Among the people whose e-mails were hacked by “Guccifer” were George Major and Corina Kretsu.

The potential role of Marcel Lazarus Lechel in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email hacking was first mentioned by Fox News in the spring of 2016. The former secretary of state’s email account contained about 2,200 classified emails and another 22 classified as Top Secret.

Between 2012 and 2014, Lazar hacked about 100 email accounts. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Hillary Clinton’s close associate Sidney Blumenthal, members of the Bush and Rockefeller families, as well as American stars are among the attackers.