The Justice Department has just announced that they are indicting four Russian spies for a major hack into Yahoo user accounts:
WATCH: Justice Dept. indicts Russian spies in massive Yahoo hack https://t.co/UCNJ5w0cYW
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 15, 2017
Here’s more on it:
Whoa. DOJ says Russian FSB officers "protected, directed, facilitated, and paid" hackers behind the massive breach of Yahoo user accounts pic.twitter.com/nP8PHUcPn9
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 15, 2017
CNN – The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that four people — including two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service — have been indicted in connection to a massive hack of Yahoo information.
The hack, which the DOJ said was initiated in January 2014, affected at least 500 million Yahoo accounts. Some of the stolen information was used to “obtain unauthorized access to the contents of accounts at Yahoo, Google and other webmail providers, including accounts of Russian journalists, US and Russian government officials and private-sector employees of financial, transportation and other companies,” the DOJ said in a statement.
Hackers stole data that included names, email addresses and passwords — but not financial information, according to Yahoo’s announcement regarding the breaches.