April 19, 2016
GRU officers Nikolay Kozacheck and Pavel Yershov and others create “middle server” to obscure the exfiltration of the DCCC network.[i] Additionally, GRU unit 74455 registered dcleaks.com through a Romanian company via a US payment processing company using cryptocurrency using the name, “Carrie Feehan” with a New York address. The same fund account was used to lease virtual private server.
[i] U.S. v. Viktor Borisovich Netyksho, et al (1:18-cr-215, District of Columbia) https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download