For helping the Russian Intelligence officers in 2014, a Canadian citizen has been pleaded guilty. He has said to be involved in the hack of the Yahoo which happened 3 years back. No doubt, that was one of the biggest hack of all the time which caused damage to around 500 million accounts. A 22-year old fellow, Karim Baratov is now also amongst three other individuals who have been arrested facing these charges in Russia.

Who else is been Charged?

It has been stated that a Russian Spy Agency officer and a well-known Russian hacker Alexsey Belan have also been charged for the involvement in the hacking of the Yahoo 3 years back. The charges suggest that FSB officer Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin both have been involved in hiring Baratov for the hack.

Details of Official Charges:

Here are the details of the official charges being made on them. “According to his plea agreement, Baratov’s role in the charged conspiracy was to hack webmail accounts of individuals of interest to the FSB and send those accounts’ passwords to Dokuchaev in exchange for money. As alleged in the indictment, Dokuchaev, Sushchin, and Belan compromised Yahoo’s network and gained the ability to access Yahoo accounts. When they desired access to individual webmail accounts at a number of other internet service providers, such as Google and Yandex (based in Russia), Dokuchaev tasked Baratov to compromise such accounts.”