They hacked a Yahoo account I made 15 years ago I forgot about…
Via USA Today:
Four people, including two Russian intelligence officers, have been charged in a Yahoo hacking attack that compromised the personal information of hundreds of millions of consumers, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors alleged the suspects hacked into Yahoo systems to “steal information from about 500 million accounts and then used some of that stolen information to obtain unauthorized access to the contents of accounts at Yahoo, Google and other webmail providers.”
The four men face 47 criminal charges including computer fraud and economic espionage. This marks the first time the U.S. government has issued criminal charges against Russian officials for cyber attacks.
“The indictment unequivocally shows the attacks on Yahoo were state-sponsored,” Chris Madsen, Yahoo’s assistant general counsel and head of global law enforcement, said in a statement.