They wanted the best, but got jail time: An official and a programmer hacked the Gosuslugi website to vote on improvement projects in Dagestan.
Caspian The city court sentenced those who hacked the Gosuslugi website. In May 2023, officials and a programmer hacked the accounts of 6 city residents on the Gosuslugi website to vote on improvement projects under the "Creating a Comfortable Urban Environment" program.
Five people were convicted of hacking the State Services website.
Five people were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to two years under the article on "unauthorized access to computer information." They are banned from holding civil service positions. The court's decision was cited by attention Channel "Elections in Detail".
Why was it necessary to hack the accounts?
Officials explained the hack simply: there weren't enough votes to meet the planned targets, so they brought in a programmer from the MFC, who downloaded the data from users' personal accounts.
Those convicted include First Deputy Mayor Sergei Shakhvaliev, Deputy Head of Administration Ruslan Uchakayev, Head of the Information Security Department Oleg Murtazaliev, as well as the head of the MFC project department and a programmer at Websystems.
Voting for improvements in other regions
Residents in several regions voted for improvement projects, either voluntarily or compulsorily. In Primorsky Krai, this was also the case. attracted schoolchildren, in the Saratov region - even first-gradersIn addition, officials vote for improvement projects used as a reason to come to the polling stations.