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Convicted Russian hacker cashes in on fame with new book, Putin souvenirs

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Dissent

Amy Kellogg reports:

A convicted Belarussian cybercriminal who was part of the biggest data theft in U.S. history said it’s much easier to hack into government computers than it is to break into big banks and credit card company servers.

Sergey Pavlovich, 34, also boasted that Russia had some of the best hackers in the world.

Read more on Fox News.

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2 thoughts on “Convicted Russian hacker cashes in on fame with new book, Putin souvenirs”

  1. Merlin says:
    August 18, 2017 at 4:12 am

    So, is he a Russian or a Belarussian hacker? Do you realize at least, that these are two different countries?

    1. Dissent says:
      August 18, 2017 at 1:20 pm

      It’s not a question of what I realize, but given that my heritage includes one of them, but not the other, I think you can safely conclude that *I* realize the difference. That was Fox’s reporting that I quoted, so you may want to direct your question to them. 🙂

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