{"id":239826,"date":"2017-11-27T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T08:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=239826"},"modified":"2017-11-27T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T08:38:34","slug":"yahoo-hacker-to-plead-guilty-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/239826-yahoo-hacker-to-plead-guilty-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo hacker to plead guilty &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian citizen accused of helping Russian intelligence hack into email accounts &#8211; which formed part of the Yahoo data breach in 2014 &#8211; is expected to plead guilty this week, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-yahoo-cyber\/canadian-charged-in-yahoo-hacking-case-to-plead-guilty-in-u-s-idUSKBN1DO2PJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Four people were reportedly indicted in relation to the hack on Yahoo, two of\u00a0whom were officers of Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service.<\/p>\n<p>One of the agents, Dmitry Dokuchaev, was arrested by Russian authorities in December and charged with treason.<\/p>\n<p>Dokuchaev is charged with acting as a handler for Karim Baratov, the Canadian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Baratov was allegedly tasked with breaking into email accounts using the Yahoo data.\u00a0Dokuchaev allegedly paid Baratov\u00a0a bounty when he succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to appear in a court in San Francisco on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/231593-yahoos-2013-hack-exposed-3-billion-users.html\">Yahoo\u2019s 2013 hack exposed 3 billion users<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian citizen accused of helping Russian intelligence is expected to plead guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41984,41986,2744],"class_list":["post-239826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-dmitry-dokuchaev","tag-karim-baratov","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239880,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239826\/revisions\/239880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}