The U.S. justice Department accused of hacking into Yahoo two employees of the FSB
MOSCOW, 15 Mar — RIA Novosti. The U.S. justice Department brought charges against four Russians, including two employees of the FSB, in the case of breaking the 500 million accounts of Yahoo, said the representative of the Minister at a press conference.
We are talking about a senior operative of the second division of the operations Department of the Centre for information security Dmitry Dokuchaev and its head Igor Sushchyn, as well as two hackers — Alexei Belene, which is located in the us list of most wanted cybercriminals, and Karim Baratova.
Earlier, the Washington Post reported that the charges include burglary, fraud, theft of trade secrets and economic espionage
As written media, Dokuchaev, along with the head of one of divisions of information security Center (Tsib) of the FSB Sergei Mikhailov member of the Department of investigation of computer incidents “Kaspersky Lab” Ruslan Stoyanov and Vladimir Anikeyev, whom the press calls one of the leaders of the hacker group “Humpty Dumpty”, is now under arrest on charges of treason.
According to the source RIA Novosti in law enforcement, the defendants are suspected in the transmission of foreign intelligence services, certain information — which, it now appears. While the CIA directly in the case does not appear, the circle of possible recipients of the information abroad is established.
A native of Kazakhstan Karim Baratov, having canadian citizenship, according to WP, was arrested last Tuesday in Canada. Alexey Belan, as suggested by the American authorities, is currently hiding in Russia.
Earlier, the press Secretary of the President of Russia 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 in 2013-2014, which became known last year, led to the fact that the cost of the sale of the American company Verizon, initially agreed at the level of 4.83 billion dollars, decreased by $ 350 million.