Alexsey Alexseyevich Belan

March 15, 2017

Four Men Charged With Hacking 500M Yahoo Accounts

This post was originally published on this site“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” -Karim Baratov (paraphrasing Mae West) The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four men accused of hacking into a half-billion Yahoo email accounts. Two of the men named in the indictments worked for a unit of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) that serves as the FBI’s point of contact in Moscow on cybercrime cases. Here’s a look at the accused, starting with a 22-year-old who apparently did not try to hide his tracks. According to a press release put out by […]