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In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Colombian hacker, Andrs Seplveda, who is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence boasted of his ability to hack into campaign networks and manipulate opinion.

“My job was to do actions of dirty war and psychological operations, black propaganda, rumours the whole dark side of politics that nobody knows exists but everyone can see,” the 31-year-old told Bloomberg.

Seplveda, and other hackers installed malware to monitor opponents during 2012 campaign as part of black propaganda operation.

Andrs Seplveda, an online campaign strategist, claimed he had also helped to manipulate elections in nine countries across Latin America by stealing data, installing malware and creating fake waves of enthusiasm and derision on social media.

Although he was well paid for his work, he said his primary motive was political. He supported right and centre-right candidates against what he called dictatorships and socialists governments.

In Mexico, however, he reportedly had a $600,000 budget to undermine the campaigns of Pea Nietos two main opponents on either side of the political spectrum: the ruling National Action partys Josefina Vzquez Mota and the Democratic Revolution partys Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador.

Seplveda is now in jail for hacking crimes related to Colombias 2014 presidential election, when he tried to help rightwing opposition candidate scar Ivn Zuluaga who opposed peace talks with the leftwing rebels (Farc). After several attempts on his life, he reportedly choose to go public with his allegations so he can win support for a reduced sentence.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/mexico-presidential-election-enrique-pena-nieto-hacking

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