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Justice Department Charging Russian Spies and Criminal Hackers in Yahoo Intrusion (washingtonpost.com)

Posted by msmash on from the growing-tension dept.

The Justice Department is set to announce Wednesday, reports the Washington Post, 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 (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternate source). From the report: 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.

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  1. Can they now convict the U.S.? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since the U.S. hacks 1,000s of computers (both foreign governments and individuals), does this mean any other country can now pass laws against hacking and immediately convict the U.S. for criminal behavior?

  2. Re:That's funny... by bit+trollent · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Right wing idiots and Russian collaborators may think it's a 'coup' for the CIA to record Russian spies who collaborated with the Trump campaign to hack our election, but that's not what a coup is. A coup is collaborating with a foreign government's spies in their hacks of your opponent, granting them policy changes as a reward. Examples: Ukraine policy reversal in RNC platform, and gutting of the State Department.

    I'm sorry that your boy Donald Trump was committing treason with Russian spies, but the CIA's job is to protect us from Russian spies. That includes Russian spies who collude with a Presidential campaign to go on a Watergate style crime spree.

    If Donald Trump didn't want the CIA to uncover obviously treasonous activities, he shouldn't have traded real estate industry bribes and hacking of his opponent's campaign for Russian control of his administration...

  3. Re:That's funny... by Highdude702 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Has anybody told you today that you're a moron? Because they should have with that kind of rhetoric.

  4. Re:That's funny... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One person did, but he's an abject retard so I didn't take it very seriously...

    I guess if you keep sticking your head in the ground to avoid noticing your President's treasonous collaboration with a hostile foreign government's hacking of our campaign, eventually your brain just stops working.

    Would a some Russian sponsored fake News which makes Donald Trump appear less like the puppet of a hostile foreign government make you feel better?