U.S. expels Russian man who tried to invade Tesla crime news

Tesla CEO Elon Musk admitted after the arrest of Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov in August, as Musk called it The goal of a serious effort to collect company secrets is the company.

A Russian man was sentenced to a full sentence on Monday and will plead guilty for trying to pay Tesla employees US$500,000 to install computer malware in the company’s Nevada battery plant to steal company secrets and will be expelled from the United States. Outbound. Ask for a ransom.

Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov appeared at the prison video conference and apologized after the U.S. Reno District Judge Miranda Du admitted that the hacking attempt was unsuccessful and the company’s network was not compromised.

“I am sorry for my decision. I am sorry,” Kriuchkov, 27, said through a Russian court interpreter.

The lawyer appointed by the court, Chris Frey, said that Kryuchkov spoke fluent English, but the judge still provided an interpreter.

Kryuchkov said that his nine-month detention in the United States reminded him of the pain and reputation he caused to his family in Russia. Several family members sent e-mails to the judge for clemency.

Kryokoff said: “I know this is a wrong decision,” he may face up to five years in prison and a fine of 250,000 US dollars.

The judge who agreed not to use the company name in court agreed to the plea agreement between the prosecutor and Kryuchkov.

In March, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison for conspiracy to intentionally damage a protected computer. Pay approximately $14,825 in compensation to allow the company time to investigate the attempted invasion and transfer the case to the FBI; and if he remains in the United States or returns from abroad, it will be three years of federal supervision. He will be detained until he leaves the country.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk admitted after Kruichkov’s arrest in Los Angeles in August that Musk called the company the goal of a serious effort to collect company secrets. Federal authorities have stated that Kryuchkov is preparing to leave the country at the airport.

Tesla has a large factory near Reno that produces electric cars and energy storage unit batteries. Company officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.

The judge set Kryokoff’s payment to the unidentified employee at $500,000. She has not dealt with previous reports, saying that the bribe amount was $1 million.

Federal authorities praised the employee for reporting Kryuchkov’s proposal to company officials.

The hacker was designed as a distributed denial of service attack, using junk data to flood Tesla’s computer system, and the second intrusion will allow the accomplices to extract data from the company’s network and demand a ransom, and threaten to disclose the information. .

Other suspected accomplices were identified by nicknames in court documents and mentioned at least one failed effort against another unidentified company.

Kryuchkov told the judge in September that he knew the Russian government was aware of his case, but the prosecutor and the FBI never claimed to be in contact with the Kremlin.

Du said: “There is no doubt that this crime is serious.” He expressed concern about “these types of cyber extortion crimes” in the United States and other countries. “Fortunately, the plan did not succeed.”