U.S. Charges Russian FSB Officers and Their Criminal Conspirators for Hacking Yahoo and Millions of Email Accounts
FSB Officers Protected, Directed, Facilitated and Paid Criminal Hackers
Defendants: At all times relevant to the charges, the Indictment alleges as follows:
DMITRY ALEKSANDROVICH DOKUCHAEV, 33, was an officer in the FSB Center for Information Security, aka "Center 18." Dokuchaev was a Russian national and resident.
IGOR ANATOLYEVICH SUSHCHIN, 43, was an FSB officer, a superior to Dokuchaev within the FSB, and a Russian national and resident. Sushchin was embedded as a purported employee and Head of Information Security at a Russian investment bank.
ALEXSEY ALEXSEYEVICH BELAN, aka "Magg," 29, was born in Latvia and is a Russian national and resident. U.S. Federal grand juries have indicted Belan twice before, in 2012 and 2013, for computer fraud and abuse, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft involving three U.S.-based e-commerce companies and the FBI placed Belan on its "Cyber Most Wanted" list. Belan is currently the subject of a pending "Red Notice" requesting that Interpol member nations (including Russia) arrest him pending extradition. Belan was also one of two criminal hackers named by President Barack Obama on Dec. 29, 2016, pursuant to Executive Order 13694, as a Specially Designated National subject to sanctions.
KARIM BARATOV, aka "Kay," "Karim Taloverov" and "Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov," 22. He is a Canadian national and a resident of Canada.
Victims: Yahoo; more than 500 million Yahoo accounts for which account information about was stolen by the defendants; more than 30 million Yahoo accounts for which account contents were accessed without authorization to facilitate a spam campaign; and at least 18 additional users at other webmail providers whose accounts were accessed without authorization.
Time Period: As alleged in the Indictment, the conspiracy began at least as early as 2014 and, even though the conspirators lost their access to Yahoo’s networks in September 2016, they continued to utilize information stolen from the intrusion up to and including at least December 2016.
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