The timing is pretty awful for Trump. The United States rarely blames foreign governments for hacks targeting US corporations. Yet in a Wednesday presser, the Department of Justice did just that — announcing indictments against two agents of the Russian FSB spy agency, Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, for a 2014 breach of Yahoo that got access to 500 million users’ data.
“They worked … to steal information including information about individual users and access the private contents of their accounts,” acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord said during the presser. “They also targeted Russian journalists, numerous employees of other providers’ …read more
Source: Vox
