more-inU.S. authorities may now be in a better position to figure out if Russian hackers and Russian spies swayed last year’s presidential elections. In the Yahoo case unsealed on Wednesday, the Department of Justice alleged that two Russian intelligence agents hired a pair of hackers to engineer a heist that affected at least a half billion user accounts. The indictment identifies Dokuchaev and Sushchin as officers of the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB. Belan and Baratov were paid hackers directed by the FSB to break into the accounts, prosecutors said. U.S. intelligence authorities have concluded that Russian intelligence agencies were behind hacking efforts of Democratic email accounts in last year’s election.

Source: The Hindu March 16, 2017 06:56 UTC