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_Published 2017-03-15. The United States has announced charges against two Russian security services officers and two hackers, accusing them of a mega data breach at Yahoo that affected at least a half billion user accounts._


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## Transcript

Today we're organising the indictment of four individuals responsible for the 2014 hack into the network of email provider Yahoo. The theft of information about at least 500 million Yahoo accounts and the use of that information to obtain their contents of accounts of @ Yahoo and other email providers. Dimitri [ UNKNOWN ] and [ UNKNOWN ]. Both FSB officers protected, directed, facilitated, and paid criminal hackers to collect information through computer intrusions in the United States and elsewhere. They worked with co- conspirators Alexei Belon \ g And Kareem Baratov to hack into the computers of American companies providing email and internet related services, to maintain unauthorized access to those computers and to steal information including information about individual users and the private contents of their accounts.

The defendants targeted Yahoo accounts of Russian and US government officials including cyber security diplomatic and military personnel. They also targeted Russian journalists, numerous employees of other providers whose networks the conspirators sort to exploit. And employers of financial services and commercial entities. With these charges the Department of Justice is continuing to send a powerful message that we will not allow individuals, groups, nations, states or a combination of them to compromise the privacy of our citizens. The economic interest of our companies or the security of our country

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