“I'm not guilty," Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov said in response to a charge of conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer.
He said earlier in the hearing that he wanted “to go through the whole process as fast as possible."
Kriuchkov, 26, also told
The judge in
A conviction could bring a sentence of five years in prison and a
Court documents say Kriuchkov was in
Kriuchkov is accused of spending more than five weeks meeting, drinking, traveling and communicating by internet chat app with the unnamed employee, according to court documents. Some meetings were monitored and recorded by the FBI. It was not clear from the documents if money changed hands.
The plot was stopped before any damage occurred, the FBI said.
Kriuchkov spoke Thursday in English and had a Russian translator available.
His appointed attorneys, federal public defenders
Kriuchkov was arrested
The hack was designed to include a distributed denial-of-service attack, using junk data to flood the
Other suspected co-conspirators are identified in a criminal complaint by nicknames. References are made to at least one other failed effort to target another unidentified company.
Ritter reported from
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