Explosive details confirmed in this @reuters.com investigation @raphae.li:
DCI group was involved in (indirectly) hiring hackers and leaking hacked documents to interfere with climate denial lawsuits against ExxonMobil.
DCI shared the info with Exxon before leaking it.
Exxon paid DCI $10M / year
@raphae.liThis is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing:
Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists.
Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved.
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Exclusive: Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources say
The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter.