Nikita Kislitsin, former head of network security at Russian cybersecurity firm Group-IB, was arrested in Kazakhstan on decade-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Kislitsin is accused of hacking into the now-defunct social networking site Formspring in 2012, and conspiring with another Russian man convicted of stealing tens of millions of usernames and passwords from LinkedIn and Dropbox that same year. The arrest could put the Kazakhstan government in a difficult diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States.
Kislitsin was indicted in Northern California in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring. He was also indicted in Nevada in 2013, but the indictment does not name his alleged victims in that case. Documents unsealed in the California case indicate Kislitsin allegedly conspired with Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian man convicted in 2020 of stealing 117 million usernames and passwords from Dropbox, Formspring, and LinkedIn in 2012.
Group-IB, which has since moved its headquarters to Singapore, stated that Kislitsin is no longer an employee and now works for a Russian organization called FACCT (Fight Against Cybercrime Technologies). The company has hired lawyers to assist Kislitsin and has appealed to the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Kazakhstan to assist in protecting their employee. The Russian government claims Kislitsin is wanted on criminal charges in Russia and must be repatriated to his homeland.
Source: KrebsonSecurity
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