WP: the U.S. justice Department accused two employees of the FSB in hacking accounts Yahoo
MOSCOW, 15 Mar — RIA Novosti. The U.S. justice Department on Wednesday will distribute an indictment against two employees of the Russian FSB, who are accused of hacking into 500 million users of Yahoo, the newspaper Washington Post, citing sources familiar with the situation.
The hacking of accounts has occurred in 2013-2014. Earlier, Reuters reported that the case charges will be brought against hackers from Russia and Canada.
On Wednesday, the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the question of whether the Kremlin about the investigation and whether or not the Russian authorities to cooperate with US in catching hackers, referred it to law enforcement.
Two major hacking accounts Yahoo, which became known last year, led to the fact that the price of the sale, the company Yahoo American Verizon, initially agreed at the level of 4.83 billion dollars, fell by $ 350 million.