The Hill, citing the Russian information resource the Rain TV reported the arrest of employees of Russian special services. They are suspected of treason and transfer of data on Russian hackers services of the United States.
Agents of the Federal Security Service Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev, a former employee of the state security service George Fomchenkov and a member of «Kaspersky Lab» Ruslan Stoyanov,who specialised in catching hackers, was arrested in December last year under the article on treason.
However, no other details were reported. «Rain» says that probably they are suspected of cooperation with the CIA. Presumably, they became informants of the United States in the case of hacker attacks Russia during the elections of 2016.
According to the website of TV Rain, they got tipped off the CIA about Russian hackers, including about the accused in the theft of credit card Roman Seleznev and the alleged attacker LinkedIn Eugenia Sochi.
After the arrest Stoyanov guide «Kaspersky Lab» said that «the case against the employee is not related to «Kaspersky Lab», noting that the charges that are imposed, relate to the period when he worked in their facility.
