Cybersecurity

Mueller Says Hackers Spread ‘Putin’s Chef’ Case Evidence Online

  • Special counsel seeks to limit Russians’ access to files
  • Prigozhin can view evidence if he comes to U.S., Mueller says
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller told a federal judge that more than 1,000 confidential files compiled in his case against hackers supported by a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin had somehow found their way onto the internet, where the evidence was widely disseminated, in defiance of the judge’s order.

The revelation came in a filing involving Concord Management and Consulting LLC, a firm controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who runs a large catering business and is known as “Putin’s chef.”