Siemens Investigating Report Worker Labored for Russian Hacking Agency

ZURICH (Reuters) – Siemens has launched an investigation after Der Spiegel reported a former programmer from Russian IT firm NTC Vulkan – which has reported hyperlinks to Russian safety providers – labored for the German engineering and tech firm.

The German information journal stated the employee was now employed by Siemens in Munich.

“We take this severely and we’re wanting into this. We can not reveal any details about the id of the individual because of information safety legal guidelines,” Siemens stated on Friday.

Der Spiegel reported on Friday that greater than 90 former employees from NTC Vulkan labored for a a number of different European firms.

The journal stated NTC Vulkan maintains shut ties to all three main Russian intelligence providers: FSB, GRU and SWR.

Its so-called “Vulkan Information” stated the corporate builds cyber programmes for the safety providers aimed toward attacking essential infrastructure amenities.

NTC Vulkan didn’t reply to requests for remark.

An ex-chief developer of the corporate is working as a “senior software program improvement engineer” at Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) in Dublin, Der Spiegel additionally reported. Amazon didn’t reply to a request for remark.

(Reporting by John Revill#; Extra reporting by Hakan Ersen; Modifying by Mark Potter)

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