Daria Litvinova reports:
Following years of hacking attacks on the online accounts of various Russian opposition figures, a man suspected of being the notorious hacker known as “Hell” — who is believed to have ties to Russian officialdom — is currently standing trial in Germany.
The man in the dock of a Bonn court is Sergei Maximov, 41, a German national of Russian descent.
He is charged with the theft and deletion of data, and faces up to four years in prison, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported last Wednesday when the trial began.
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