What is Kaspersky’s role in NSA data theft? Here are three likely outcomes

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Kaspersky is fighting for its survival after a bombshell story in The Wall Street Journal revealed hackers working for the Russian government had obtained classified NSA data.

At the heart of the story is a claim that hackers in 2015 targeted an NSA employee, who worked for the agency’s elite hacking tools development unit (confirmed from additional reporting by The Washington Post), and who took classified materials home and opened on their home computer that was running a Kaspersky antivirus. The report said that the Russian hackers targeted the employee after they identified the NSA files through the antivirus software.

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