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posted by on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-they-are-not-in-custody dept.

Four people, including two Russian FSB officers, have been indicted by the Justice Department over a 2014 breach at Yahoo!

The Justice Department has announced charges against four people, including two Russian security officials, over cybercrimes linked to a massive hack of millions of Yahoo user accounts.

Two of the defendants — Dmitry Dokuchaev and his superior Igor Sushchin — are officers of the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB. According to court documents, they "protected, directed, facilitated and paid" two criminal hackers, Alexsey Belan and Karim Baratov, to access information that has intelligence value. Belan also allegedly used the information obtained for his personal financial gain.

"The criminal conduct at issue, carried out and otherwise facilitated by officers from an FSB unit that serves as the FBI's point of contact in Moscow on cybercrime matters, is beyond the pale," Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord said.

Also at Reuters, NYT, Washington Post, and RT.


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  • (Score: 2) by number6x on Thursday March 16 2017, @01:31PM (2 children)

    by number6x (903) on Thursday March 16 2017, @01:31PM (#479763)

    Why don't they get code names like 'Fancy Bear' or 'Cozy Bear'?

    Might I suggest 'Yogi' and 'BooBoo'?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday March 16 2017, @01:38PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday March 16 2017, @01:38PM (#479770) Journal

    How about "Vodka" and "Krokodil"?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @01:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @01:42PM (#479772)

    Nuclear Alice and Bearly Bob.