It will be interesting to see how The Gentlemen respond to having their dear overlord identified in real life. Already there is some butthurt on the group's threads across a couple of RU hacker forums.

One thing I didn't mention in the story is the potential consequences of top RU hackers being outed. At a minimum, those tend to include having one's accounts on the major forums deleted. Sure, the person can just create a new identity and resurface, but from then on they suddenly have several more concerns to deal with on a regular basis, such as interference and shakedowns from tax authorities and local police, extortion or even kidnapping for their considerable ill-gotten crypto wealth.

What's remarkable is that this guy isn't the only major ransomware head honcho who was too careless with their personal information. Stay tuned.