Posted on 03/15/2017 7:38:37 AM PDT by Theoria
The Justice Department is set to announce Wednesday the indictments of two Russian spies and two criminal hackers in connection with the heist of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014, marking the first U.S. criminal cyber charges ever against Russian government officials.
The indictments target two members of the Russian intelligence agency FSB, and two hackers hired by the Russians.
The charges include hacking, wire fraud, trade secret theft and economic espionage, according to officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the charges have not yet been announced. The indictments are part of the largest hacking case brought by the United States.
The charges are unrelated to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. But the move reflects the U.S. government’s increasing desire to hold foreign governments accountable for malicious acts in cyberspace.
The FBI and the Justice Department declined to comment.
The United States does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, but officials have said that taking steps such as charges and imposing sanctions can be a deterrent. People also sometimes slip up and travel to a country that is able and willing to transfer them to the United States for prosecution.
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“according to officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity”
Fake news.
SPECTRE and Blofeld are behind this.
Since this happened in 2014 does that mean that Obama's Administration were the ones really in cahoots with the Russians? 8>)
Is the Washington Post now throwing the Obama under the bus?
Yes, all sarcasm.
In other words, Russia hacked everyone they could. They hacked the DNC (although everyone hacked the democrats and the released emails were leaked by insiders, not hacked by outsiders). They hacked Hillary’s server (again, everyone hacked Hillary, and the released emails were leaked by insiders, not hacked by outsiders). They hacked Yahoo. They didn’t hack President Trump or the RNC because our side had security.
So far the WP is the only source that blames the Russians. Maybe they just made it up to get the attention off of Richard Maddow’s debacle last night?
People also sometimes slip up and travel to a country that is able and willing to transfer them to the United States for prosecution.
Anything yet on how the Middle Eastern fraternity of brothers hacking the Hill are to be punished?
or...crickets?
That’s on Trump and Sessions. No more excuses.
That’s now! thanks
AGREED!!
Not to mention how Maddow and that crazy David guy oughta be prosecuted, but never mind, I have been watching Sessions, don’t expect much from him...
I’m turning into a fan of Devin Nunes. Something ‘right’ about that boy.
Are these all Obama holdovers patting themselves on the back?
And the charges against Chinese espionage can be expected when?
... 500 million Yahoo user accounts ...
Why would the Russian government want that?
Of course, the CIA has now lost plausible deniability given the recent WikiLeaks...
Mark
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Yahoo email asks to use your contacts. I say no and I get spam at my other non yahoo email account that I have to filter. They have been hacked multiple times. The email and the rest of their site is terrible ever since Marissa Mayer took over and looted Yahoo.
Russia has lots of pretty good hackers, but the fact that they’re Russian doesn’t necessarily mean they’re Russian “spies” or “officials”.... not every American criminal is an American “spy” or “official” (unless you’re a journalist with an Iranian/Russian/Chinese/etc. government news source).
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