Yahoo Hacker linked to Russian Intelligence Gets 5 Years in U.S. Prison

A 23-year-old Canadian man, who pleaded guilty last year for his role in helping Russian government spies hack into email accounts of Yahoo users and other services, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Karim Baratov (a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k… Continue reading Yahoo Hacker linked to Russian Intelligence Gets 5 Years in U.S. Prison

Three Chinese Hackers Fined $9 Million for Stealing Trade Secrets

Hackers won’t be spared.

Three Chinese hackers have been ordered to pay $8.8 million (£6.8 million) after hacking email servers of two major New York-based law firms to steal corporate merger plans in December 2016 and used them to trade stocks.

The U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan sued 26-year-old Iat Hong, 30-year-old Bo Zheng, and 50-year-old Hung Chin, over a multi-million

Continue reading Three Chinese Hackers Fined $9 Million for Stealing Trade Secrets

Yahoo Email Spying Scandal — Here’s Everything that has Happened So Far

Today Yahoo! is all over the Internet, but in a way the company would never have expected.

It all started days ago when Reuters cited some anonymous sources and reported that Yahoo built a secret software to scan the emails of hundreds of millions of … Continue reading Yahoo Email Spying Scandal — Here’s Everything that has Happened So Far