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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.conspiracy, alt.comp.freeware, comp.programming, comp.lang.c, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt |
| Subject | Russian Agents Were Behind Yahoo Breach, U.S. Says |
| Date | 2017-03-16 02:13 +0800 |
| Organization | Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Message-ID | <oac02v$6ol$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/technology/yahoo-hack-indictment.html?_r=0 Two Russian intelligence agents who were supposed to help Americans hunt for hackers instead directed a sweeping criminal conspiracy that broke into 500 million Yahoo accounts in 2014, the Justice Department charged on Wednesday. The Russian government then used the information they obtained to focus on foreign officials, business executives and journalists, federal prosecutors said. The targets included numerous financial executives, executives at an American cloud computing company, an airline official and even a casino regulator in Nevada. The hackers also used the Yahoo data to send spam and steal credit card and gift card information. The attackers also sought to break into at least 50 Google accounts, including those of Russian officials and employees of a Russian cybersecurity firm. On Wednesday, prosecutors unsealed an indictment containing 47 criminal charges against the two agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., as well as two outside hackers with whom they worked with on the scheme, one of the largest known thefts of data from a private corporation. ... more ... -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
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