US media report: Kaspersky helped catch an alleged NSA data thief

Kaspersky Lab has been under fire over the past few years in the USA over concerns that it could provide its clients’ private — and at times secret — information to the Russian government.

It turns out, however, that the Russian cybersecurity firm might have helped the National Security Agency (NSA) identify and arrest in 2016 a former contractor charged with a massive theft of classified NSA data.

US online publication Politico got details on the matter from “two people with knowledge of the investigation,”  and published its findings yesterday.

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