San Francisco — The Justice Department Charged Two Russian Intelligence Officers On Wednesday With Directing A Sweeping Criminal Conspiracy That Stole Data On 500.

On wednesday, the fbi indicted four people for the attack, two of whom are russian spies. Yahoo's information security team found out that russian hackers had made off with personal data days after the december 2014 breach. Department of justice charges two russian fsb employees, a russian criminal hacker and a canadian criminal hacker in connection with the 2014 yahoo data breach.

Officials For A Yahoo Data Breach Include Two Russian Intelligence Officers And Two Hackers They Enlisted.

Here’s how the fbi says they did it: The yahoo indictment named four russian nationals—two officers from russia’s federal security service (fsb), the successor organization to the kgb, and two hackers who. A young computer hacker who prosecutors say unwittingly worked with a russian spy agency was sentenced to five years in prison tuesday for using data stolen in a massive.

San Francisco (Ap) — A Young Computer Hacker Who Prosecutors Say Unwittingly Worked With A Russian Spy Agency Was Sentenced To Five Years In Prison Tuesday.

Defendants conspired to hack into the computers of yahoo and accounts maintained by yahoo, google and other providers to steal information from them. The yahoo hacker for hire karim baratov, charged with helping russian intelligence officers access compromised yahoo email accounts, received a sentence of five. In a landmark move, the justice department on wednesday indicted four men, including two russian spies, for hacking into yahoo and stealing data on 500 million users.

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When yahoo disclosed last year that more. Four people charged by u.s. Two russian hackers initiated a breach that affected more than 500 million yahoo user accounts, the department of justice says.

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Two russian intelligence agents and two hackers have been charged in a widespread breach at yahoo that affected at least a half billion user accounts, the justice.