US indicts two Russian intel operatives and two hackers for 2014 Yahoo breach

Published March 15, 2017 4:28pm ET



The U.S. has indicted two Russian intelligence operatives and two hackers for their involvement in the January 2014 theft of data from 500 million Yahoo user accounts.

The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a grand jury in the Northern District of California indicted the individuals for “computer hacking, economic espionage and other criminal offenses in connection with a conspiracy.”

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