
US authorities on Wednesday (15 March) brought forward charges against two Kremlin intelligence (FSB) officials and two criminal hackers for launching a massive cyberattack on Yahoo in 2014, which compromised around 500 million user accounts.
The US government's indictments reveal how Russian spies allegedly recruited criminal hackers in a conspiracy to hack the tech giant.
The FBI said that the two criminal hackers,
Alexsey Belan, a Russian...