Canadian who helped Yahoo email hackers jailed

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Canadian who helped Yahoo email hackers jailed
A Canadian accused of helping Russian intelligence agents break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 data breach at Yahoo was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday and ordered to pay a US$250,000 fine. Karim Baratov, who pleaded guilty in November 2017 in San Francisco, was ...

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