FIN7 hacker trialed in Russia gets no prison time

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A Russian court handed down a mild one-year suspended prison sentence to a member of the FIN7 hacking group, a notorious cybercrime cartel that has hacked more than 100 US companies between 2015 and 2018.

The man, whose identity was not initially shared in a press release circulated to Russian media last week, was identified today by The Record in Russian court proceedings as Maxim Zhukov Sergeevich (Максим Жуков Сергеевич), a 36-year-old from the city of Vladimir.
 

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