Slashdot Mirror
Canadian Hacker Sentenced To 5 Years For Yahoo Security Breach (seattletimes.com)
The computer hacker who worked with Russian spies was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for his role in a massive security breach at Yahoo. "U.S. Judge Vince Chhabria also fined Karim Baratov $250,000 during a sentencing hearing in San Francisco," The Associated Press reports. From the report: Baratov, 23, pleaded guilty in November to nine felony hacking charges. He acknowledged in his plea agreement that he began hacking as a teen seven years ago and charged customers $100 per hack to access web-based emails. Prosecutors allege he was "an international hacker for hire" who indiscriminately hacked for clients he did not know or vet, including dozens of jobs paid for by Russia's Federal Security Service. Baratov, who was born in Kazakhstan but lived in Toronto, Canada, where he was arrested last year, charged customers to obtain another person's webmail passwords by tricking them to enter their credentials into a fake password reset page. Prosecutors said Russian security service hired Baratov to target dozens of email accounts using information obtained from the Yahoo hack.
"Deterrence is particularly important in a case like this," the judge said during the hearing. He rejected prosecutors call for a prison sentence of nearly 10 years, noting Baratov's age and clean criminal record prior to his arrest. Baratov has been in custody since his arrest last year. He told the judge Tuesday that his time behind bars has been "a very humbling and eye-opening experience." He apologized to those he hacked and promised "to be a better man" and obey the law upon his release. The judge said it is likely Baratov will be deported once he is released from prison.
"Deterrence is particularly important in a case like this," the judge said during the hearing. He rejected prosecutors call for a prison sentence of nearly 10 years, noting Baratov's age and clean criminal record prior to his arrest. Baratov has been in custody since his arrest last year. He told the judge Tuesday that his time behind bars has been "a very humbling and eye-opening experience." He apologized to those he hacked and promised "to be a better man" and obey the law upon his release. The judge said it is likely Baratov will be deported once he is released from prison.
"...tricking them to enter their credentials into a fake password reset page."
Where's the "hacking" part? This isn't hacking, this is just a douchebag tricking idiots.
Who is the bigger hack?
Will put Hitlary and her FBI spies in jail, or six feet under. I personally hope she resists. Feminazis deserve equal violence. LOL
It didn't seem to work this time, but maybe next time!
So instead of prohibiting him from accessing any Internet-connected computer, we'll send him back to Kazakhstan where we can't keep a close eye on him. Brilliant!
She looks like a monkey from Planet of the Apes.
She is a negro after all. Faith and begorah, she ain't no ginger leprechaun.
This thing called the internet can't be secured in traditional sense because *YOU* don't control the world and there are places where hackers will not be tried. The only way to secure the internet is for individuals to take appropriate actions. One who gets online and thinks the government can or should protect them deserve neither freedom nor protection. And we won't even go into how the federal US courts have repeatedly stated the government has no obligation to protect you anyway. Rather the government has been deceiving us and is no better than a gang which uses violence against those who refuse to 'pay up'. Both have no issue with resorting to conversion, theft, and ultimately kidnapping and violence.
Does anyone else think that sentences for hacking should be scaled to reflect the actual degree of difficulty?
Yahoo should probably be "Time served in court waiting to be sentenced".