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WASHINGTON A jailed Russian who says he hacked into the Democratic National Committee computers on the Kremlin’s orders to steal emails released during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign now claims he left behind a data signature to prove his assertion.
In an interview with Russia’s RAIN television channel made public Wednesday, Konstantin Kozlovsky provided further details about what he said was a hacking operation led by the Russian intelligence agency known by its initials FSB. Among them, Kozlovsky said he worked with the FSB to develop computer viruses that were first tested on large, unsuspecting Russian companies, such as the oil giant Rosneft, later turning them loose on multinational corporations.
Koslovsky is jailed in Russia for treason, along with stealing 50 million from Russian bank accounts, and has also been indicted in the United States. The treason charge could very well be that, because he was afraid that his handlers would turn on him, he left a signature on the DNC server, in a .dat file, which identifies him and the Russian FSB as the hackers. If he did leave this signature, it would be the smoking gun. This signature could not have been faked by anybody, because it includes Koslovsky's Russian passport number, along with the number of his visa to the Carribbean.
Jailed Russian says Russia's FSB ordered him to hack DNC in 2016 | McClatchy Washington Bureau