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by matsur 801 days ago
eg "Hans Jansen" is <hansjansen162@outlook.com>

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067708

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I'm maybe naive in assuming that there is some kind of investigation going on that isn't playing out in public, but I would assume that years of emails going through Microsoft servers might make the identities of the cohorts in this attack difficult to hide?
When making sockpuppet email accounts use a plausible birth year as your numeric extension.