Justice Department charging Russian spies and criminal hackers for Yahoo intrusion

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3. Related: Russian Agents Were Behind Yahoo Breach, U.S. Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/technology/yahoo-hack-indictment.html

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The four men together face 47 criminal charges, including conspiracy, computer fraud, economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department said in a news release.

The two agents of the F.S.B. who were charged are Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, 33, a Russian national and resident, and Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin, 43, a Russian national and resident.

The other two defendants are Mr. Belan, 29, a Russian national and resident; and Karim Baratov, 22, a Canadian and Kazakh national and a resident of Canada. Mr. Baratov was arrested on Tuesday in Canada.

“The criminal conduct at issue, carried out and otherwise facilitated by officers from an F.S.B. unit that serves as the F.B.I.’s point of contact in Moscow on cybercrime matters, is beyond the pale,” the acting assistant attorney general, Mary B. McCord, said in a statement.

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