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Russia’s Ex-cybersecurity Boss Hit with 22-year Treason Sentence

Sergei Mikhailov, the former deputy head of cybersecurity for Russia’s domestic security agency, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. So reports the Associated Press.

The conviction of Mikhailov by a Russian military court ended a murky case that experts speculate was a response to U.S. investigations into Russian hacking. Ruslan Stoyanov, an executive at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, was also convicted and sentenced to 14 years.

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