Russian hackers managed to steal sensitive files from the home computer of an NSA contractor who used Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus, according to the The Wall Street Journal. The revelation sheds light on the secretive reasons behind the US government ban of Kaspersky Lab products, and former NSA hackers I spoke to said they weren’t surprised by the story, saying that it could explain rumors of a leaker at the NSA that have swirled for a year.

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