Karim Baratov, International Hacker-For-Hire, California 2020

Karim Baratov, 23, a Canadian national and resident, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine for his role in an international hacking-for-hire conspiracy.

The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse for the Northern District of California, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, and Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett of the FBI's San Francisco Field Office.

Baratov was sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine, which encompasses all of his remaining assets. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable Vince Chhabria, U.S. District Judge.

Baratov's role in the charged conspiracy was to hack webmail accounts of individuals of interest to his coconspirator, who was working for the FSB, and send those accounts' passwords to Dokuchaev in exchange for money.

The Indictment and additional documents setting out the allegations are available at www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/us-v-dmitry-dokuchaev-et-al.

Baratov has been detained since his arrest in Canada in March 2017. Baratov waived extradition to the United States and was transferred to the Northern District of California in August 2017. In November 2017, Baratov pleaded guilty to Count One and Counts Forty through Forty-Seven of the Indictment.

The charges against Baratov include conspiring to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by stealing information from protected computers and causing damage to protected computers. Baratov also admitted to agreeing and attempting to hack at least 80 webmail accounts on behalf of one of his FSB co-conspirators, and hacking more than 11,000 webmail accounts in total.

Karim Baratov, 23, is a Canadian national and resident who was sentenced to 5 years in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine for his role in an international hacking-for-hire conspiracy. The charges against Baratov include conspiring to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by stealing information from protected computers and causing damage to protected computers.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/international-hacker-hire-who-conspired-and-aided-russian-fsb-officers-sentenced-five