Russia sentences man who claimed to hack Clinton

Bloomberg

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 organising 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.
Kozlovsky was arrested in 2016 on the charges and said during his trial that Russia’s Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, recruited him to hack the Democratic National Committee, The Bell reported in 2017. He said
his supervisor was FSB cybersecurity agent Dmitry Dokuchaev, who was subsequently convicted of treason.
A Russian investigation did not confirm his link to the Clinton hack, which resulted in the whistleblowing organisation WikiLeaks publishing about 20,000 of her private emails, RIA reported, citing an unidentified person in law enforcement in the Sverdlovsk region, where Kozlovsky’s hacking ring was based.
Clinton has blamed her
defeat by Donald Trump
in the 2016 presidential
election partly on Russia’s
interference.