Mike Eckel reports:
U.S. authorities have demanded a nearly eight-year prison sentence for a Kazakh-born computer hacker, asserting that a harsh term would send a message to Russia’s main intelligence agency about hacking and espionage.
Federal prosecutors made the arguments in court filings in San Francisco ahead of the next hearing for Karim Baratov, who is scheduled to be sentenced on April 24.
The U.S. prosecution against Baratov has yielded glimpses into the role of Russian intelligence agencies — the Federal Security Service (FSB), first and foremost — using computer hackers, possibly in the theft of passwords, e-mails, and espionage.
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