Super-hacker 'Guccifer' held and named as Marcel Lazar Lehel

It didn't take long to find him once he hacked into the email of Romania's spy chief, George Maior

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‘GUCCIFER’, the anonymous hacker who became a thorn in the side of the US establishment by leaking politicians' and Hollywood stars' sensitive private emails, is anonymous no longer. He has been arrested by Romanian police and named as Marcel Lazar Lehel.

Lehel is a 42-year-old Romanian who worked as a cab driver before turning to cyber-crime. The mistake that got him caught was to hack into the email of his country's spy chief, George Maior.

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Jack Bremer is a London-based reporter, attached to The Week.co.uk. He has reported regularly from the United States and France.