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Prisoner Swap Includes Russian Hackers and KGB Assassin

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Feed Name: KnowBe4 Blog

Date Published: 2024-08-02

Date Updated: 2026-04-28

Author: Stu Sjouwerman

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A news report on a U.S.–Russia prisoner swap highlights two convicted Russian hackers—Vladislav Klyushin (hacked corporate earnings databases to trade on nonpublic information) and Roman Seleznev (prolific credit-card theft causing over $169M in fraud)—and assassin Vadim Krasikov, convicted for a 2019 Berlin killing, underscoring the rarity and significance of U.S. convictions of foreign hackers.

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