BREAKING--AP reports a Russian hacker arrested

[BadgerMom]

Late Thursday night (can't sleep) the AP published a report stating a Russian hacker wanted by the US for involvement in the DNC intrusion was arrested in Spain last week. The Spanish are adjudicating extradition.

I hope by morning there's more on this.

Here's the link:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/27ea797f2d6d4548aabd62aa31fcf213/spain-arrests-russian-wanted-us-alleged-hacking

[JI7]

1. with Trump in charge i don't see anything happening

[pinboy3niner]

3. Maybe a Medal of Freedom?

[orangecrush]

21. Maybe

A refreshing midnight swim?

[BadgerMom]

4. You know what?

If we continue to bring up the Trump/Putin connection on social media and to our circle, if we pressure our representatives to remember by calling and writing, if our (historic) allies work on this as well, and if a few journalists with integrity and courage follow the story, you could be proven wrong. So that's what I'm hanging my hat on for right now.

[JI7]

5. i agree that we will have to depend on the international community and some others. but i'm talking

about this specific instance .

[BadgerMom]

6. I agree with you

This is another straw, but the camel's back is far from broken.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. A blanket pardon at the very least

[pnwmom]

2. Thanks!

[rainbow4321]

7. Find that motherfucker's electronic equipment..like now. And trace his contacts/communications

OUR POTUS is still POTUS for several more hours. The clock is ticking...

Put the hacker in the hands of one of our allies (UK?) so tiny hand man can't get a hold of him at 12:01 pm.


Literally just read that tiny hand's first place to visit on Saturday is gonna be the CIA building for the swearing in of his newly appointed director. Maybe they can also direct him to a room for, um, questioning, while he is there.

[pangaia]

27. That does not bode well.

[Cha]

8. Wow... Look @ the "lame duck" Obama Admin's 11th hour

Action.

I can tell blotus is seething his 1/2 brain cell from here!

[rainbow4321]

9. Found another article

Put on this news website a day ago....apparently it looks like our media (surprise) is the last to report it. And this guy has been in Spain custody since Jan 13??

I googled his name and several news articles came up, including this one.

http://www.ibtimes.com/russia-hacking-scandal-programmer-stanislav-lisov-detained-spain-fbis-request-russian-2477659

[BadgerMom]

10. I noticed his date of arrest, too

Great reporting, MSM!

/s

[rainbow4321]

12. No kidding...all the Google entries as of this moment are NON-USA

Russia, Spain, International Business website, Italy (I think?) all have news articles. Only US one is Fox World or something.

I'm sure as the day goes on the US MSM will report it but for real right now it's all foreign media links via Google.

[BadgerMom]

13. I hope it gets picked up

but, honestly, with the inauguration news followed by the Women's March on a weekend it seems likelier it will get buried.

[rainbow4321]

15. Spam the MSM facebooks with the info and ask why they are ignoring it

If there is no coverage

Notice how in all the reporting that they have done over tiny hands' comments yesterday NONE of them picked up on his repeated comment that "next time we will win the OLD FASHIONED WAY".
He said it at least twice, saw it on live coverage at 2 events.

[rainbow4321]

11. " .... fleeing justice as he had done previously in the United States."

Wait...all the international articles have this same line..so he was IN the US?? And he "fled"?

WTF?
Hello, no fly list????
Why was he here and who the hell did he meet with, if anyone?

[TomVilmer]

14. Few Russians are controlled by Putin...

... but hopefully this guy really did some criminal hacking in the USA, and some more facts can evolve from this arrest.

[uponit7771]

20. +1, my understanding is they're all "affiliated" so Pootin can have plausible deniability

[stonecutter357]

16. was his name Snowden ?

[Skittles]

17. now he needs to sing like a comrade bird

[drm604]

18. That article doesn't say that this is related to the DNC hacking.

It probably is, but it could be for some other unrelated hacking.

[bdamomma]

19. There will be many more

leading right to the Kremlin and tRump.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

22. He's suspected of bank fraud.

http://www.newsjs.com/za/spain-arrests-russian-bank-account-hacker-wanted-by-fbi/dHKl0aj83YQ82eMy1AiXnOqwuZYwM/

Russian programmer Stanislav Lisov arrested in Spain is suspected of developing NeverQuest malware, the so-called “Banking Trojan” which steals bank account logins and gives attackers access to accounts...

[drm604]

29. Exactly.

The article linked to in the OP said nothing about the DNC hack, yet nearly everyone in this thread jumped to that conclusion.

When we make these kinds of unwarranted assumptions it hurts our credibility. Then when real evidence comes along it's more difficult to convince people that it's real.

[Achilleaze]

23. The Russian hackster was probably wearing one of these...

[FarCenter]

25. Taganrog is on the Sea of Azov, just east of the Ukraine border - Maybe related to Ukraine?

[unblock]

26. does he weigh 400 pounds?

seriously, donnie's deflection that it could be some 400 pound guy sitting on a couch was so random yet specific it made me think he'd actually met the guy.

not that there's only one, of course....

[Bonx]

30. I bet he's arrested and found to be on the Trump payroll!