An ex-engineer at Yahoo will avoid jail time after hacking into more than 6,000 email accounts in search of sexually explicit images. Ruiz accessed the accounts during a tenure at Yahoo from 2009 to 2019, when he worked as a 'reliability engineer' among other roles. Court documents say that Ruiz downloaded photos and videos and then stored them on a hard drive in his home. Ruiz also used the stolen credentials to compromise accounts of victims at other service like Apple iCloud, Gmail, Hotmail, Dropbox, and Photobucket. AS a result, US prosecutors were only able to identify 3,137 of the estimated 6,000 total victims according to ZDNet.

Source: Daily Mail July 06, 2020 22:18 UTC