That poor poor Soviet Spy turned traitor. Spilling state secrets - legitimate target for assassination.

And his mistake was trusting a friend. Not some data collection Russian operation.

If you enter that game - you know the risks.

Fill in your own special circumstances. Going just based on his name, he sounds like he had a severely elevated risk of exposure to the Russian government. I'm pretty sure he knew about it. None of that applies to actsasbuffoon.

As an American in the US, my special circumstances dictate that the US government is very dangerous, and the largest, possibly only, risk that I'd suffer from the Russian government getting my data is that they'd share it with the US government.