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Thank you FBI for alerting Canada to a hacker/spy in my country. As usual, the Canadian police were completely in the dark and busy chasing rabbits to even put this guy on their radar. This is because we know all 22 year old Russians have enough cash laying round to pay off their mortgage and buy expensive luxury sports car. Maybe the police figured he was just a government employee.
When the RCMP claim they had "assisted the FBI in their investigation", it means the FBI told them who the culprit was, where he lived the the schleps at the RCMP took time off from their usual "game playing" tactics to actually make the arrest. As always, they try and take the spotlight, undeservedly. Ditto for the OPP, members of the Gong Show
No wonder our allies don't trust us...
U.S. charges 22-year-old Canadian Karim Baratov and two Russian spies with massive Yahoo data breach
Russian government agents paid a 22-year-old Canadian and an alleged accomplice to hack U.S. Internet companies in one of the largest data breaches in history, U.S. authorities alleged Wednesday.
Karim Baratov, a Canadian and Kazakh national, was arrested by the Toronto police fugitive squad Tuesday morning in Ancaster, Ont., in connection with a hack of 500 million Yahoo and Gmail accounts.
He was handed over to the RCMP to be processed for extradition to the United States, which asked Canada to arrest him on March 7. The RCMP confirmed it had assisted with the FBI investigation.
Two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service, which replaced the Soviet KGB, have also been indicted with economic espionage for directing the massive hacking operation, which began in January 2014.
“The involvement and direction of FSB officers with law enforcement responsibilities makes this conduct that much more egregious,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCoord said in announcing the charges.
According to a summary of the allegations, the operation was run by Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, members of an FSB unit called the Center for Information Security, or Center 18. They worked with Baratov and a Russian hacker named Alexsey Belan.
Wanted since 2012, Belan had been arrested in Europe but escaped to Russia before he was extradited. Instead of taking Belan into custody on an outstanding Interpol Red Notice, the FSB officers instead put him to work.
In late 2014 he stole “at least a portion” of Yahoo’s User Database containing subscriber information for more than 500 million accounts. He also “obtained unauthorized access” to Yahoo’s Account Management Tool, used to log changes to user accounts.
When the RCMP claim they had "assisted the FBI in their investigation", it means the FBI told them who the culprit was, where he lived the the schleps at the RCMP took time off from their usual "game playing" tactics to actually make the arrest. As always, they try and take the spotlight, undeservedly. Ditto for the OPP, members of the Gong Show
No wonder our allies don't trust us...
U.S. charges 22-year-old Canadian Karim Baratov and two Russian spies with massive Yahoo data breach
Russian government agents paid a 22-year-old Canadian and an alleged accomplice to hack U.S. Internet companies in one of the largest data breaches in history, U.S. authorities alleged Wednesday.
Karim Baratov, a Canadian and Kazakh national, was arrested by the Toronto police fugitive squad Tuesday morning in Ancaster, Ont., in connection with a hack of 500 million Yahoo and Gmail accounts.
He was handed over to the RCMP to be processed for extradition to the United States, which asked Canada to arrest him on March 7. The RCMP confirmed it had assisted with the FBI investigation.
Two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service, which replaced the Soviet KGB, have also been indicted with economic espionage for directing the massive hacking operation, which began in January 2014.
“The involvement and direction of FSB officers with law enforcement responsibilities makes this conduct that much more egregious,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCoord said in announcing the charges.
According to a summary of the allegations, the operation was run by Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, members of an FSB unit called the Center for Information Security, or Center 18. They worked with Baratov and a Russian hacker named Alexsey Belan.
Wanted since 2012, Belan had been arrested in Europe but escaped to Russia before he was extradited. Instead of taking Belan into custody on an outstanding Interpol Red Notice, the FSB officers instead put him to work.
In late 2014 he stole “at least a portion” of Yahoo’s User Database containing subscriber information for more than 500 million accounts. He also “obtained unauthorized access” to Yahoo’s Account Management Tool, used to log changes to user accounts.
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