Was it some fallout from the alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential election? Was it a power struggle within Russia's security services? Russian media have been filled with lurid, often contradictory, details that most assume are leaked by warring factions of intelligence officers. The arrests appear to add more weight to allegations against the Russian intelligence services that they recruited from the country's vibrant hacking community to boost their offensive cyber capabilities. Andrei Soldatov, who has studied the Russian security services and the internet for years, said the Moscow arrests clearly pointed to intelligence officers and criminal hackers working together to hack the Democrats.

Source: ABC News January 31, 2017 19:41 UTC