The United States accused the manager of Group-IB of cybercrime
In accordance to an indictment in a courtroom databases, US authorities accuse Nikita Kislitsin, supervisor of a Russian cybersecurity enterprise Group-IB, of hacking the Formspring social community. Group-IB, which does not appear in the cost, identified the expenses from its personnel unfounded.
Kislitsin was the editor-in-main of magazine Hacker from 2006 to 2012. In 2012, he labored for some time in the United States, and considering that 2013, he has been working at Team-IB, where he is engaged in stability danger intelligence. The indictment in opposition to Kislitsin dates again to 2014 but was declassified and uploaded to the San Francisco courtroom database only this week.
Kislitsin was charged with two counts relevant to the use of unlawful entry devices. 1 write-up assumes up to 10 a long time in prison, another – up to 5 years, also Kislitsin faces a high-quality of 250 thousand pounds.
The indictment states that Kislitsin gained the names, electronic mail addresses and passwords of Formspring buyers from an accomplice-hacker, and then tried using to provide them to a different accomplice for 5.5 thousand euros. In full, the scenario entails 3 accomplices of Kislitsin, not a person of them is named.
Team-IB issued a statement on its website linking the costs against Kislitsin to the situation of Yevgeny Nikulin, whose trial opens in California up coming week. Nikulin is accused of illegally accessing information from the social community LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring servers.
Team-IB states that it supports its employees. What’s more, the enterprise and its personnel Nikita Kislitsin did not receive the official summons, notifications or invitations to the future court hearing in the Nikulin case.
The organization stated that Team-IB is at the moment consulting with intercontinental legal professionals for a lawful assessment of the situation and building a selection on further more actions.
