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FACT SHEET · KRIUCHKOV

Egor Kriuchkov: the insider who said no (Nevada company)

Targeted · Refused
LEGAL STATUS

Pleaded guilty (Mar 18, 2021). Judgment May 24, 2021: time served (defense counsel calculated 278 days) plus 3 years' supervised release. D. Nev. No. 3:20-cr-00045-MMD-CLB.1

AS OF 2026-10-20

Case-file story

ITT-002ILLUSTRATIVETargeted · Refused
THE RECRUITMENT THAT FAILED

The Employee Who Said No

PLEADED GUILTY · TIME SERVED

Timeline

  1. 2020-07-15 to 2020-08-22Conspiracy period2
  2. 2020-08-01 to 2020-08-21Repeated trips from California to Nevada to entice the employee2
  3. 2021-03-18Pleads guilty to conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer2
  4. 2021-05-24Judgment imposed1

Verified facts

  • He offered to pay the employee in Bitcoin to transmit malware into the company network, so the conspirators could exfiltrate data and extort the company.2
  • After meeting with him, the employee reported his conduct to the company, which promptly contacted the FBI.2

Editorial notes

  • The DOJ release and the judgment do not name the company. This site says "a Nevada company," as DOJ does, and does not repeat press identifications.

Sources

  1. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.145616/gov.uscourts.nvd.145616.67.0.pdf · no archive snapshot yet
  2. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/russian-national-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-introduce-malware-us-company-s-computer-network · Wayback
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