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Moscow Court Sentences ‘Shaltai-Boltai’ Hackers To Prison

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Dissent

RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty reports:

A Moscow court has sentenced two Russian hackers to three years in prison each for breaking into the e-mail accounts of top Russian officials and leaking them.

Konstantin Teplyakov and Aleksandr Filinov were members of the Shaltai-Boltai (Humpty Dumpty in Russian) collective believed to be behind the hacking of high-profile accounts, including the Twitter account of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Read more on RFE/RL.


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