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Were the Russians Behind the Massive Yahoo Email Hack? The hack of more than a half billion Yahoo email accounts was motivated by espionage, not profit, according to an independent cybersecurity firm report released Wednesday, which contends that an Eastern European state-sponsored actor appears to have ordered the massive hack as part of a coordinated effort to infiltrate the email accounts of U.S. military, diplomatic and political figures. The findings by the cyber security firm InfoArmor are consistent with Yahoo officials' claim last week that a state-sponsored actor was behind one of the largest corporate breaches in U.S. history. Yet InfoArmor's version of events, if accurate, provides significant new details about how and why the company was hacked. Minor league hackers who were peddling Yahoo users' personal information for cash in "dark web" marketplaces were also part of a foreign government espionage campaign dating back to 2014. And the findings also suggest that hacks of LinkedIn, Dropbox, MySpace and other firms -- breaches affecting billions of customers worldwide -- might've been part of the same state-sponsored effort. In an interview with NBC News prior to the release of his firm's findings, InfoArmor's chief intelligence officer Andrew Komarov described the Yahoo breach as part of a larger, ongoing campaign to break in to the email accounts of prominent officials from the U.S. and across the globe. He said that his analysts have uncovered a previously unidentified collective of elite black hat hackers-for-hire from Eastern Europe -- a group that InfoArmor analysts now contend was also responsible for hacks of the other social media companies.  Honesty is the best policy. |
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This Yahoo email hacking is "near and dear" happened on me. I have to change my passwords ASAP. Honesty is the best policy.
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