On Aug. 27, one of the strangest targets yet of Russian hacking was revealed, when The Associated Press broke the news that Fancy Bear—the group infamously entangled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election hacks—had also targeted the heart of Eastern Orthodoxy, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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Members of to the clergy bid farewell to Patriarch of Moscow and Patriarch Kirill (C) after his meeting with Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (unseen) at St George church, the main Greek Orthodox cathedral in Istanbul on August 31.
