Canadian Man Facing Prison For Yahoo Hack
(24 Apr 2018) Two Russian intelligence agents, Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, used the information they stole from Yahoo to spy on Russian journalists, U.S. and Russian government officials and employees of financial services and other private businesses, according to prosecutors.
A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Tuesday, meanwhile, pushed back a sentencing hearing for a 23-year-old Canadian man, Karim Baratov, who prosecutors say was hired by Dokuchaev to breach at least 80 email accounts obtained from the massive Yahoo hack.
Judge Vince Chhabria questioned whether the sentence of seven years and 10 months that prosecutors were seeking for Baratov was longer than what other hackers had received for similar crimes.
Baratov's attorneys have called for a sentence of three years and nine months.
"We showed him a number of cases where there was similar hacking and the sentences were 9 months, 18 months, 30 months and yet the government here is proposing a sentence of 94," defense attorney Andrew Mancilla said.
Authorities have described Baratov as an "international hacker-for-hire" who hacked more than 11,000 webmail accounts from around 2010 until his March 2017 arrest and used the money he made, roughly $1.1 million at about $100 per hacking victim, to finance a $650,000 home and fancy cars, including a Lamborghini and Aston Martin.
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