Four Men Charged With Hacking 500M Yahoo Accounts
Summary: The U.S. Justice Department unsealed indictments against four men accused of hacking into a half-billion Yahoo email accounts, including two officers of Russia's FSB - Dmitry Dokuchaev, 33, and Igor Sushchin, 43 - along with Russian national Alexsey Belan and Canadian-Kazakh national Karim Baratov. According to the indictments, Belan stole a copy of Yahoo's User Database covering more than 500 million accounts in late 2014 and gained access to Yahoo's Account Management Tool, which the conspirators used to mint cookies and access at least 6,500 accounts without authorization.
What's compelling: The FSB officers accused here worked in the unit that serves as the FBI's point of contact in Moscow on cybercrime cases, and the indictment says they gave Belan sensitive FSB law enforcement and intelligence information to help him avoid detection outside Russia.
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