An unknown hacker who calls himself Guccifer who previously hacked the email account of former American state secretary Colin Powell, revealing his alleged affair with Romanian Corina Cretu, has again targeted a Romanian.

The hacker broke into the Yahoo email account of Romania’s chief intelligence George Maior, according to Mediafax newswire, quoting the Romanian Intelligence Agency (SRI) spokesperson Sorin Sava.

Sava said Maior had used the hacked account before becoming the head of SRI, and was only using it for his academic activities, with the help of an assistant. “We will take all legal measures, and Guccifer will be caught once and for all, and given to justice,” said Sava, quoted by Mediafax.

According to Thesmokinggun.com, Guccifer had hacked the emails of Colin Powell, members of the Bush and Rockefeller families, and even members of the Obama administration.

He is believed to have accessed personal emails, contacts, phone records, photos and confidential financial records, including credit card and banking information and investment documents, according to Thesmokinggun.com.

The list of people whose email accounts were hacked by Guccifer seems to be even longer however, including entertainers, academicians, diplomats, military and Government officials, as well as journalists. According to some of the victims, the accounts were broken using IP addresses in Greece and Russia.

Guccifer's name is linked to exposing the alleged affair between former state secretary Colin Powell and former Romanian presidential adviser Corina Cretu, now a member of the European Parliament.

Guccifer broke into Powell’s AOL account and published ten emails from Corina Cretu, including pictures the woman had sent Powell. Cretu wrote Powell in 2010 – 2011 that he was the love of her life, suggesting an old love affair. “I’ve loved you too much, too many years. YOU were my greatest love of my life . . . ,” Cretu emailed Powell in 2011.

Powell, 76, however denied an affair, saying it was never a shared love and that he had always been faithful to his wife of 50 years Alma.

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