Russian infosec boss gets nine years for $100M insider-trading caper using stolen data

Confidential figures for Tesla, Snap, Roku, Avnet, others swiped and used to rack up millions in ill-gotten gains

Vladislav Klyushin, the Russian owner of security penetration testing firm M-13, was jailed for nine years in the US on Thursday, for his involvement in a cyber-crime operation that stole top corporations’ confidential financial information to make $93 million through insider trading.…

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