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The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation has obtained his extradition from Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan will extradite Nikita Kislitsin, a manager of the former Group-IB, to Russia for criminal prosecution, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation reported on its Telegram channel. The request for his extradition was sent in June of this year in connection with his detention in Kazakhstan.
According to the investigation materials, Kislitsin in October 2022, together with his accomplices, illegally gained access to the server data of one of the commercial organizations and copied information from them. Then the hackers put forward a demand to pay them 550 thousand rubles in cryptocurrency for non-proliferation of data in public sources.
Nikita Kislitsin is the head of the department of F. A. C. C. T. (formerly Group-IB), which develops software to combat cybercrime. He was arrested in June at the Almaty airport at the request of the United States. In August, a court in Kazakhstan rejected a US request to extradite the Russian developer.
Kislitsin is suspected of illegal access to legally protected computer information (Part 3 of Article 272 of the Criminal Code) and extortion (Part 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code).
The company claims that Kislitsin's problems are not related to his work at F. A. C. C. T., but are related to events ten years ago, when he was a journalist and independent expert. In 2006-2012, Kislitsin worked as editor-in-chief of the Hacker magazine.
In 2020, the US Department of Justice named Kislitsin as one of the suspects in the case of Russian hacker Yevgeny Nikulin (he is accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring). According to the US department, Kislitsin participated in the 2012 hacking of Formspring, the theft of user data and an attempt to sell them. Group-IB denied the charges against Kislitsin and claimed that they relate to the period when he did not work for Group-IB.
Kazakhstan will extradite Nikita Kislitsin, a manager of the former Group-IB, to Russia for criminal prosecution, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation reported on its Telegram channel. The request for his extradition was sent in June of this year in connection with his detention in Kazakhstan.
According to the investigation materials, Kislitsin in October 2022, together with his accomplices, illegally gained access to the server data of one of the commercial organizations and copied information from them. Then the hackers put forward a demand to pay them 550 thousand rubles in cryptocurrency for non-proliferation of data in public sources.
Nikita Kislitsin is the head of the department of F. A. C. C. T. (formerly Group-IB), which develops software to combat cybercrime. He was arrested in June at the Almaty airport at the request of the United States. In August, a court in Kazakhstan rejected a US request to extradite the Russian developer.
Kislitsin is suspected of illegal access to legally protected computer information (Part 3 of Article 272 of the Criminal Code) and extortion (Part 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code).
The company claims that Kislitsin's problems are not related to his work at F. A. C. C. T., but are related to events ten years ago, when he was a journalist and independent expert. In 2006-2012, Kislitsin worked as editor-in-chief of the Hacker magazine.
In 2020, the US Department of Justice named Kislitsin as one of the suspects in the case of Russian hacker Yevgeny Nikulin (he is accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring). According to the US department, Kislitsin participated in the 2012 hacking of Formspring, the theft of user data and an attempt to sell them. Group-IB denied the charges against Kislitsin and claimed that they relate to the period when he did not work for Group-IB.
