Russian Who Claims Hillary Clinton, DNC Email Hack Gets 14-Year Sentence
A Russian who claimed in 2017 that he was ordered to hack the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC) and steal emails linked to Hillary Clinton has been sentenced to 14 years for cyber fraud.
Konstantin Kozlovsky, the leader of the hacking group Lurk, was ordered by a court in Yekaterinburg to spend 14 years at a "maximum security prison colony" after the group used Trojan malware to steal more than 1.2 billion rubles ($15.6 million) between December 2015 and April 2016.
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During a hearing about his arrest in August 2017, Kozlovsky said he had been recruited by Russia's Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, to hack the DNC and steal emails linked to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to Russian news site The Bell.
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According to Interfax, Kozlovsky's statements that he allegedly stole data from U.S. government servers using malicious software weren't confirmed during the trial.
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