[Staple_Diet]

>Financial sanctions levied against Khoroshev by the U.S. Department of the Treasury listed his known email and street address (in Voronezh, in southwest Russia), passport number, and even his tax ID number (hello, Russian tax authorities).

Laughable. The only RU Govt related outcome for him will be recruitment to RU cyber warfare (if he isn't already there already) in exchange for keeping his profits.

[ValtteriL]

Now his identity being this public, I don't think he will be able to live a "normal" life anymore. If recruited in exchange for protection, he will need to relocate and get a new identity at a minimum.

What a great opportunity for old school criminals not afraid of using violence to try getting their fair share of the profits.

[anabab]

Snowden seems to live "normal" life with quite public identity.

[xeornet]

Given the US sanctions against Russia, why would they aid in stopping him damaging US businesses?

[Staple_Diet]

That is literally what RU CW do. I'm saying that, like most RU cyber criminals, he will be recruited to act for the state of he isn't already doing so.

[resolutebat]

Previous poster did not suggest they would stop him, only that his talents would be redirected.

[firen777]

Getting doxxed like this means that anyone can beat the ever living private key out of his mouth knowing there are millions of dollars in his wallet. With the current economy, there's probably a great motivation to do this too, especially for the mid level authority.

>only RU Govt related outcome for him will be recruitment to RU cyber warfare

Unless he has any specialized skill or his previous infrastructures are still intact, I figure he'd be just as replaceable as any code monkey in any other industry.

[suslik]

Pretty sure he can afford a couple of bodyguards to prevent most of the cases like that.

[vsnf]

As far as intelligence agencies go, the treasury department is massively underrated.

[hwbunny]

Why people in security think that the russians gonna finish what the US started and somehow marginalize this chap?

Assuming that US and RU are not allied in the background...