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Alleged Yahoo Hacker Will Be Extradited To The US (tucson.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the AP:
A Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails agreed Friday to forgo his extradition hearing and go face the charges in the United States. Karim Baratov was arrested in Hamilton, Ontario, in March under the Extradition Act after U.S. authorities indicted him and three others, including two alleged officers of Russia's Federal Security Service. They are accused of computer hacking, economic espionage and other crimes.
An extradition hearing for the 22-year-old Baratov had been scheduled for early September, but he signed documents before a Canadian judge Friday agreeing to waive it. His lawyer, Amedeo DiCarlo, said that does not amount to an admission of guilt... U.S. law enforcement officials call Baratov a "hacker-for-hire" paid by members of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, considered the successor to the KGB of the former Soviet Union.
Yahoo also believes that attack -- which breached at least 500 million Yahoo accounts in 2014 -- was perpetrated by "a state-sponsored actor." The CBC reports that Baratov lives alone in a large, new house in an expensive subdivision. "His parents either bought him the house," one neighbor told the CBC, "or he's getting money somewhere else, because he doesn't seem to work all day; he just drives up and down the street."
The CBC also reports that Baratov's Facebook page links to a Russian-language site "which claims to offer a number of services, including servers for rent in Russia, protection from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and domain names in China."
An extradition hearing for the 22-year-old Baratov had been scheduled for early September, but he signed documents before a Canadian judge Friday agreeing to waive it. His lawyer, Amedeo DiCarlo, said that does not amount to an admission of guilt... U.S. law enforcement officials call Baratov a "hacker-for-hire" paid by members of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, considered the successor to the KGB of the former Soviet Union.
Yahoo also believes that attack -- which breached at least 500 million Yahoo accounts in 2014 -- was perpetrated by "a state-sponsored actor." The CBC reports that Baratov lives alone in a large, new house in an expensive subdivision. "His parents either bought him the house," one neighbor told the CBC, "or he's getting money somewhere else, because he doesn't seem to work all day; he just drives up and down the street."
The CBC also reports that Baratov's Facebook page links to a Russian-language site "which claims to offer a number of services, including servers for rent in Russia, protection from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and domain names in China."
Perhaps he is looking to make some kind of deal, or maybe Russia is looking to make some kind of exchange with the US. Although, if it's a deal he's looking to make, I'd be careful what I drink if I were him.
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Now that doesn't sound like made up BS does it... The media is really scraping the barrel here. Just because someone has a nice house it does not equal criminal activity.
Well... we know who pays you.
U.S. law enforcement officials call Baratov a "hacker-for-hire" paid by members of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, considered the successor to the KGB of the former Soviet Union.
To be perfectly honest, it sounds like the FBI is mad that Baratov is not working for them. I'm no fan of state-sponsored hackers but honestly, our own government has no moral standing to denounce hackers anywhere.
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When will it ever end
then they decided to punish people that took advantage of it? How about arrested this idiot Yahoo employees like Marissa Mayer that approved adding the backdoor?
It's still far better than the Russian "justice" system which allows the government to violate its contracts with Siemens with impunity so it can send turbines to the occupied Crimea in violation of international sanctions.
Then again, with all the blackouts Crimea keeps experiencing due to the ineptitude and incompetence of its Russian occupiers, it's no wonder the court didn't intervene. Wouldn't want to incur the wrath of Putin and have its judges end up like Boris Nemtsov, killed in front of the Kremlin by the orders of Putin.
Woah, you think this happens only in Russia? Check out this series of killings in the UK and the apparent impotence of the police, MI5 and James Bond.
So, what they are saying is that one guy hacking in his basement, really does equate to a Newspaper Persistent Nation State Threat after all.
He can't be doing that well if he stayed in Hamilton, ON.
I remember this one. His parents said "Oh, he's just really really smart at computers. A lot smarter than any of his friends. They are just jealous that he has made a lot of money being smart with computers.". He bought the $2Million US house and the garage full of Lamborghini's by being really smart with computers. He has never studied, but when he turned 20 he made a *lot* of money with teh computers. No Russian state sponsors using him as a guinea pig. Noooo. He just real smart with teh computers. Real smart. Extradite, let him name names, watch out for
He will probably get ~20 years in US. He should've try to delay the expedition as possible and try to escape. Even if he did nothing wrong he will still be found guilty, this won't end well.
American kangaroo courts are notoriously unconcerned with justice, and our country's Gulag is surpassed only by Stalin's original. Why do other countries continue to allow extradition to the United States?
killed in front of the Kremlin by the orders of Putin.
Don't you mean: "had a deadly accident in front of the Kremlin, that had nothing to do with the people in power."
Like all computer people he is extraordinarily gay like a poof. he dresses as a girl and gets fucked like a girl.
I guess now FBI will interview him and offer him a job :) Way to go buddy.
So let me get this straight. When domestic terrorists disrupt the electrical network by cutting down power lines that lead from mainland to Crimea, it is Russian ineptitude and incompetence. When Russians actually try to build a new power plant in Crimea - after decades of neglect of Ukrainian government no less - it is also wrong and must not be allowed. When a country does not abide sanctions imposed on itself by a third party it is wrong again and a sign of a corrupt justice system.
It is almost like arabs blaming jews for everything bad happening to them.
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The Canadian government will know, seeing as everyone with income has to report that on their tax return.
The reporting of tax is a matter of law, not fact. How does Section 83 apply in conclusion that there is a tax owed or needed filed?
Every so-called court I've been in, every officer and employee I've asked that question to, never answers and often results in a protection order.
You really shouldn't hire hackers in other countries when you have plenty of your own. One would think that a former KGB mastermind would realize this.
He will be charged, plead guilty, sit in jail for a week and be quietly traded to Russia for some poor bastard US citizen or diplomat that the FSB scoops off the street in Moscow. He knows this and would rather not draw out the process...
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