Man charged in Va. in Bush family email hack

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Romanian man is facing charges that he hacked into Facebook and email accounts of former high-ranking U.S. government officials and a relative of two former presidents.

Marcel Lehel Lazar, the hacker known as “Guccifer” who has been linked to the release of private Bush family photos, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Virginia.

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