The court sentenced the leader of the “Humpty Dumpty” to two years
Hacker Vladimir Anikeev, of which the consequence considers as the founder of the group “Humpty Dumpty”, received two years in prison for hacking email and mobile phones of politicians and businessmen. The curators of the group of investigators of the FSB.
The Moscow city court has sentenced the alleged leader of hacker group “Humpty Dumpty” Vladimir Anikeev to years of prison on charges of publishing the correspondence of politicians and businessmen. This decision was made by the judge, the correspondent of RBC from the courtroom.
Anikeeva was charged with the offence under article 272 of the criminal code (illegal access to information protected by law); in contrast to the accomplices of the “Humpty Dumpty”, he pleaded guilty, so the case against him was considered in a special order process took only two days. During debate of the parties the public Prosecutor has requested for Anikeeva 2.5 years of the colony. The trial was held behind closed doors because the case materials are Classified.
According to investigators, Anikeev with co-conspirators hacked into emails and mobile phones of senior officials, including, for example, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, chief editor of the Life channel Aram Gabrelyanov. Data thus obtained Anikeev in the future put up for sale on the website “Humpty Dumpty”; correspondence press Secretary to the Chairman of the government Natalia Timakova with mail on a secure government domain in 2015 offered to buy for 150 bitcoins, or $35 thousand the defendant insisted that he had committed the break-ins “for the sake of freedom of information,” explained his lawyer Ruslan Koblev.
The victims in the case officially recognized, among others, head of the Directorate of Sberbank Evgeny Kislyakov, Russian presidential aide Andrei Belousov and TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev. Explanations were also given Timakova and the head of internal policy Department of President administration Timur Prokopenko, however, the investigation found no grounds for the recognition of their victims.
Anikeyev was arrested by the FSB in October 2016, this intelligence had to coax him from the Ukraine, reported by “Rosbalt”. The Agency linked the beginning of the prosecution of a hacker in an attempt to break-correspondence presidential aide Vladislav Surkov; “Fontanka” the reason they called the theft of documents of the Ministry of defense and the personal order of the head of Department Sergey Shoigu.
In confessions Anikeeva mentioned Deputy head of information security Center (Tsib) of the FSB Sergei Mikhailov, claimed “Rosbalt” according to Anikeeva, he oversaw the work of hackers. Vs Mikhailov, his subordinate Dmitry Dokuchaev and employee “Kaspersky Lab” Ruslan Stoyanov later it was opened a separate criminal case of treason. Further, the defence Anikeeva denied that his principal told investigators about meeting with security officials.
Initially, in the “Humpty Dumpty”, from which in connection with the guilty plea highlighted the fact Anikeeva, there were four defendants. One of the hackers Alex Glazastik managed to detention to leave the country and intended to seek political asylum in Estonia. The case against the two accused, Konstantin Teplyakov Alexander Filinova, were investigated at the end of may and handed over to the Prosecutor for approval of the indictment. They pleaded guilty and refused a plea deal. Also at the end of may “Rosbalt” reported that investigators of FSB have established the likely fifth member of the band is that Andrei Nekrasov, nicknamed the mad Hatter, who in 2015 moved to Lithuania and received political asylum there.