The Justice Department has announced the indictments of two Russian-hired criminal hackers and two Russian Federal Security Service spies for connections to the massive 2014 Yahoo data breach. The Washington Post reports this is the first time the U.S. has made criminal cyber charges against members of the Russian government. Said charges include wire fraud, hacking, trade secret theft, and economic espionage. The FSB agents, Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, his boss, were from Russia's cyber investigative unit of the agency — a "rough equivalent of the FBI’s Cyber Division," the report states. Canada's Kazakhstan-born Karim Baratov and Alexsey Belan, "who is on the list of most-wanted cyber criminals and has been charged twice before," are the hackers named in the indictment. Authorities are reportedly protecting Belan in Russia, while Baratov was arrested in Canada this week. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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