There was an 11 count federal indictment that was filed against 12 Russian military officers for using cryptocurrency to hide their true identity in a scheme against the Democratic National Committee andHillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016. They used these digital coins to do all the transactionsand expose stolen election-related documents, keeping their true identities hidden.The group registered the dcleaks.com domain before releasing the stolen documents. rented a virtualprivate server through an online digital currency service as indicated by the arraignment. From thatpoint onward, they enlisted an URL-shortening account that was utilized to "Stick and Phish" the Clintoncrusade administrator and "other campaign-related people"The group released emails that were stolen from the Clinton campaign during the period of the sitelaunch up to the end of the election. The site was claimed to be run by “American Activists” and it receivedmore than 1 million views after that it was shut down in March 2017.The indictment that was filed by the Department of Justice, indicates that all the accused people are themembers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, or GRU, that’s part of the Russianmilitary. Not only they are accused of hacking Clinton’s campaign but also they hacked the DemocraticCongressional Campaign Committee, and the Democratic National Committee in the fake namesDCLeaks, Guccifer 2.0, and “another entity”.The case moved further with the help of the cyber teams in Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.The charges that were put are:1. Count 1: criminal conspiracy2. Count 2 – 9: Aggravated identify theft3. Count 10: Conspiracy to launder money via cryptocurrency4. Count 11: Conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States