{"id":240150,"date":"2017-11-29T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T08:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=240150"},"modified":"2017-11-29T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T08:35:02","slug":"yahoo-hacker-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/240150-yahoo-hacker-pleads-guilty.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo hacker pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian citizen Karim Baratov has pleaded guilty to charges relating to the hacking of Yahoo in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The hack involved spear-phishing Yahoo employees and compromising 500 million accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Baratov admitted he was tasked with hacking the email accounts of people of interest by the\u00a0Federal Security Service of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Baratov said he sent gatherer email passwords to his alleged handler,\u00a0Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev.<\/p>\n<p>Dokuchaev was arrested by Russian authorities in December and charged with treason.<\/p>\n<p>Two other men were indicted in February and remain in Russia, along with\u00a0Dokuchaev.<\/p>\n<p>Baratov is being held in Northern California without bail. His\u00a0sentencing hearing is scheduled for February 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/239364-firefox-to-warn-you-about-hacked-websites.html\">Firefox to warn you about hacked websites<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian citizen Karim Baratov has pleaded guilty to hacking charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41986,13355,2744],"class_list":["post-240150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-karim-baratov","tag-yahoo-hack","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240150"}],"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=240150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240178,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240150\/revisions\/240178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}