A law enforcement source said that the examination of the equipment seized from the members of the Lurk hacker group did not reveal traces of attacks on the servers of the American government. During the court session, hacker Konstantin Kozlovsky, who is being held as one of the defendants in the case of the Lurk hacker group, declared his involvement in hacking the servers of the Democratic Party of the USA, as well as in hacking Hillary Clinton's mail.
However, the examination showed that this is not the case.
"The examination was carried out by the security forces together with the leading companies in the field of information security in Russia, all seized equipment, media, communications were checked. No evidence of attacks on the U.S. government was found. Also, the group members did not discuss it in the seized correspondence," the source said.
He added that the investigation did not establish a connection between Kozlovsky and any FSB officers. "If you follow his statements, they always follow the high-profile hacking topics in the media, to which he is trying to link his criminal case: first it was Russian interference in the US elections, then, when information about the arrest of employees of the FSB Information Security Center appeared in the media, he also mentioned it.
Even in the list of those involved in the attack on American information resources, published by the US Department of Justice, there is neither Kozlovsky himself nor other members of the Lurk group," the source explained.
The detention of a group of Lurk hackers became known on June 1, 2016. There are 22 people in the dock. According to investigators, the participants of the hacker group stole 1 billion 264 million rubles (16.7 million dollars) from commercial companies and banks.
They also hacked the network of Yekaterinburg Koltsovo airport and copied information from servers.
It should be noted that Kozlovsky is not the first to try on the role of a hacker of the servers of the Democratic Party. Previously, a hacker with the nickname Guccifer 2.0 took responsibility for hacking. The user called himself a Romanian hacker, but spoke Romanian with machine translation errors.
