“At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, the competent authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan are extraditing Nikita Kislitsin to face criminal charges under Part 3 of Art. 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal access to computer information protected by law) and paragraphs. “a”, “d” part 2 art. 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (extortion),” the Russian Prosecutor’s Office said.
According to the investigation, in 2022, Kislitsin gained access to the server data of one of the organizations and copied the information. After he and several other hackers obtained this data, they “put forward a demand for payments in cryptocurrency amounting to the equivalent of 550,000 rubles for non-dissemination of information in public sources.”
Kislitsyn was detained in Kazakhstan at the request of the United States on June 22, 2023. The FBI accused him of gaining access to LinkedIn user data and Dropbox and Formspring servers in 2012. The case did not go to trial then – he began to cooperate with the FBI and testified against other hackers who could work for the Russian intelligence services.
FACCT is a cybersecurity software developer and successor to Group-IB. The founder of Group-IB, Ilya Sachkov, was recently convicted of treason.
Recently, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, Anatoly Legkodymov, accused of money laundering through cryptocurrencies, asked the court to release him from custody so that he could spend time with his family. In early December, Legkodymov pleaded guilty to money laundering through crypto assets, agreeing to confiscate $23 million as part of a plea deal.
Source: Bits
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