{"id":5126,"date":"2017-12-13T17:13:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2017-12-13T17:13:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:13:38","slug":"22-year-old-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-2014-yahoo-hack-admits-helping-russian-intelligence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/2017\/12\/13\/22-year-old-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-2014-yahoo-hack-admits-helping-russian-intelligence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"22-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to 2014 Yahoo Hack, Admits Helping Russian Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old Kazakhstan-borm Canadian citizen has pleaded guilty to hacking charges over his involvement massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected over three billion Yahoo accounts.<br \/>\nIn March, the US Justice Department charged two Russians which are Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushichim and two other hackers which are Alexsey Belan and Karim Baratov for breaking Yahoo servers in 2014.<br \/>\nKarim was arrested in Toronto at his Ancaster home by the Toronto Police Department in March this year, the other three suspects are still in Russia, unlikely to be extradited.<br \/>\nLast Tuesday, Baratov admitted to helping the Russian spies and pleaded guilty to a total of nine counts in San Francisco as following:<br \/>\n\u2013 One count of conspiring to violate the computer Fraud and abuse Act by stealing information from protected computers and causing damage to protected computers.<br \/>\n\u2013 Eight counts of aggravated identity theft.<br \/>\nBesides any prison sentence, Baratov has also agreed to pay compensation to the Yahoo victims and a fine up to $2,250,000 (at $250,000 per count).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/11\/yahoo-email-hacker.html\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/11\/yahoo-email-hacker.html\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old Kazakhstan-borm Canadian citizen has pleaded guilty to hacking charges over his involvement massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected over three billion Yahoo accounts. In March, the US Justice Department charged two Russians which are Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushichim and two other hackers which are Alexsey Belan and Karim Baratov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[684819],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-14-maturity-models","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5127,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions\/5127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}