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Russian Agents Were Behind Yahoo Breach, U.S. Says

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#7519 — Russian Agents Were Behind Yahoo Breach, U.S. Says

From	"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>
Date	2017-03-16 02:13 +0800
Subject	Russian Agents Were Behind Yahoo Breach, U.S. Says
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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.

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