This calendar week inward Yekaterinburg began 2 trials over the members of the hacker grouping Lurk. Earlier, grouping leaders admitted to intervening inward the USA Presidential Campaign of 2016 together with hacking Hillary Clinton's email.
It turned out that the instance has 585 volumes together with 24 people are defendant of it. According to investigators, the grouping was organized past times the programmer from Ekaterinburg Konstantin Kozlovsky together with Vladimir Grizan. They formulated an activity conception inward Dec 2013 together with began actively recruiting assistants via the Internet. As a result, a hierarchically construction was formed.
The investigation said that the theft of hacker grouping amounted to i billion 264 1000000 rubles (19 1000000 dollars). The most successful grouping functioning occurred on Feb 29, 2016. 677.6 1000000 rubles (10 1000000 dollars) were withdrawn from the accounts of the Public Joint Stock Company "Metallinvestbank" alongside the aid of mistaken details.
According to the indictment, the hackers spent their profits to rent offices inward Yekaterinburg together with Moscow together with to purchase the necessary equipment. H5N1 fellow member of the hacker grouping reported that his salary was well-nigh $ 2,000 each month. An interesting fact is that he works life this “job” past times viewing ads on the Internet together with he was straightaway told that the activity would hold upwardly "a fleck illegal".
One of the organizers Kozlovsky mentions that his curator was the Major of the Federal Security Services (FSB) Dmitry Dokuchaev. In belatedly Dec end year, the Media reported that Dokuchaev, also every bit a publish of FSB employees, were nether investigation due to a leak of information well-nigh assail on servers of the USA Democratic Party.
“The grouping was characterized past times stability, scheme together with solidarity,” said State Prosecutor Shchibrik.
