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11-30-2017, 02:01 AM
A man just pled guilty for his role in that massive Yahoo hack
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Remember that massive Yahoo hack? Not the one in 2013 (http://mashable.com/2016/12/14/yahoo-hack-1-billion/) that resulted in the theft of around a billion users' data, but the breach in 2014 (http://mashable.com/2016/09/22/yahoo-confirms-data-breach/) that led to the compromising of some 500 million user accounts? Yeah, that one.*
Well, one of the people related to the scheme just pled guilty. And, surprise, he claims his role in the plot was to hack accounts the FSB, a Russian security agency, was interested in.
SEE ALSO: Russian hackers reportedly used popular antivirus software to steal NSA data (http://mashable.com/2017/10/05/nsa-hack-kaspersky/)
The Department of Justice issued a statement (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-hacker-who-conspired-and-aided-russian-fsb-officers-pleads-guilty) yesterday detailing the plea, which notes that the man, Karim Baratov, is a Canadian national but was in cahoots with the Russian government. Three other defendants were also named in the statement, although U.S. authorities say they remain at large in Russia.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/29/yahoo-hacker-pleads-guilty/)
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Remember that massive Yahoo hack? Not the one in 2013 (http://mashable.com/2016/12/14/yahoo-hack-1-billion/) that resulted in the theft of around a billion users' data, but the breach in 2014 (http://mashable.com/2016/09/22/yahoo-confirms-data-breach/) that led to the compromising of some 500 million user accounts? Yeah, that one.*
Well, one of the people related to the scheme just pled guilty. And, surprise, he claims his role in the plot was to hack accounts the FSB, a Russian security agency, was interested in.
SEE ALSO: Russian hackers reportedly used popular antivirus software to steal NSA data (http://mashable.com/2017/10/05/nsa-hack-kaspersky/)
The Department of Justice issued a statement (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-hacker-who-conspired-and-aided-russian-fsb-officers-pleads-guilty) yesterday detailing the plea, which notes that the man, Karim Baratov, is a Canadian national but was in cahoots with the Russian government. Three other defendants were also named in the statement, although U.S. authorities say they remain at large in Russia.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/29/yahoo-hacker-pleads-guilty/)
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