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U.S. Indicts 2 Russian Security Officials Over Yahoo Hack

Two of the defendants are officers of the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB. They were indicted along with two criminal hackers over a 2014 breach involving at least 500 million Yahoo accounts.
The FBI issued a series of "wanted" posters for Russians accused of cyber crimes Wednesday, including Igor Anatolyevich Suschin, who is alleged to be a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer.

The Justice Department has announced charges against four people, including two Russian security officials, over cybercrimes linked to a massive hack of millions of Yahoo user accounts.

Two of the defendants — Dmitry Dokuchaev and his superior Igor

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