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By a Staff Writer

Oct 6 2017 10:32AM

Eugene Kaspersky calls it "the script of a C movie".

Russians allegedly hacked NSA via Kaspersky flaw

Eugene Kaspersky

Russian government-backed hackers reportedly stole classified US information after a National Security Agency contractor put highly classified information on his home computer. The hack took place in 2015, and included information on penetrating foreign computer networks and ...

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