Cybersecurity
Russia Sentences Man Who Claimed to Hack Clinton, RIA Reports
- Konstanin Kozlovsky given 14-year term by Yekaterinburg court
- He made unconfirmed claim the FSB hired him to hack the DNC
Konstantin Kozlovsky appears for a sentence hearing at the Kirovsky District Court.
Photographer: Donat Sorokin/TASS/Getty Images
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A Russian court sentenced the leader of a hacking gang to 14 years in prison, RIA Novosti reported, bringing an end to a trial in which the man claimed to have helped the country’s security service to hack Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Konstanin Kozlovsky was convicted of organizing a criminal ring and large-scale fraud after the Lurk gang stole more than 1.2 billion rubles ($15.6 million) from December 2015 to April 2016 using trojan malware, the news service reported from the court in Yekaterinburg. Other members of the group received sentences of between five and 13 years, according to RIA.