Being hacked is the new status symbol in Washington, DC. Since Wikileaks started releasing the hacked emails of Clinton campaign head John Podesta, a slew of other political nabobs have been hoping to be important enough to get hacked—or at least to seem that way. Russian hacker Guccifer said he receives at least a dozen inquiries a day from Washington strivers begging him to send their correspondence on to Wikileaks. “They think it makes them look powerful, important, like big guy,” he said. Since the polls in the US presidential election have swung toward Clinton, most of the unsolicited correspondence Guccifer receives is filled with suspiciously verbose praise of the Democratic candidate. But that’s not all he sees. One famous political power couple sent him a sex tape on the theory that such an embarrassing video could only have been obtained in a genuine hack. “I can’t look at my screen for three days since I open that,” said Guccifer.