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Commercial theft or some kind of malicious prank, it was a russian intelligence operation that was designed, among other things, to target journalists and foreign officials. so they charged four russians in conjunction with that hack of yahoo today. now, two of the four people who they indicted were young hackers that were reportedly working with the fsb, with the russian spy service, one is in russia and hasnt been picked up, one is in canada and has been arrested. those are the two outside hac...

That was designed, among other things, to target journalists and foreign officials. so they charged four russians in conjunction with that hack of yahoo today. now, two of the four people who they indicted were young hackers that were reportedly working with the fsb, with the russian spy service, one is in russia and hasnt been picked up, one is in canada and has been arrested. those are the two outside hackers. the other two named in the indictment were actually russian intelligence agencies. f...

One of the two fsb agents charged in this indictment today on the yahoo! thing is the same person reportedly arrested in moscow in december and charged with treason for allegedly cooperating with u.s. intelligence and that was an arrest many observers believe was tied to the russian hacking and attack on our election. specifically to the unmasking of that attack. same guy. same fsb guy. arrested in moscow in december, named in this indictment today? right now, the same guy already under arrest f...

One of the two russian agents, one of the two fsb agents charged in this indictment today on t on the yahoo! thing is the same person reportedly arrested in moscow in december and charged with treason for allegedly cooperating with u.s. intelligence and that was an arrest many observers believe was tied to the russian hacking and attack on our election. specifically to the unmasking of that attack. same guy. same fsb guy. arrested in moscow in december, named in this indictment today? right now,...

Pete williams, break it down for us. >> this was the 2014 intrusion into yahoo! the government tells us. there were two known attacks on it, one in 2013 that youre talking about, stole accounts of a billion people, this was 500 million people. it started in early 2014. for the first time ever, the united states has filed criminal charges against two officials of the russian government. you see their pictures in the back there. this is the first time they filed these charges in a cyber hacking ca...

Who wanted to get this information out there in some way. i understand also president obama saying he didnt want to escalate a cyber war. but it seems like if this was happening, then -- i dont know what the further escalation is. you can shut down their electricity grid in moscow. it seep seems to me that it ha happened to the republicans, the republicans would be mad. interestingly on the front page of the wall street journal today is the story that says the rnc was able to thwart the hacking ...

When we look at that level of coordination, the type of weapons that they had, the number of people who appear to have been involved here, the only thing that says to me as a lay observer is that this isnt a coffee klatch, this isnt a casual group of people, this is a group of people that must have at least trained among themselves if not gotten trained by somebody whos got military tactical experience. does it say anything to you about which kind of group might have been involved? >> look, this...

September. their first order of business is getting to debate the bill. president obama heads to his vacation to marthas vineyard later today where white house officials say he will continue to drum up support. >> thank you so much. at the white house this morning. also an unclassified e-mail server has been hacked. defense officials say rushsia is the prime suspect. barbara starr, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, brooke. russia indeed suspect number one here at the pentagon. this was a ...

Page. it was a sophisticated and coordinated attack on the social media website and tv signals. this attack was a long- time in the planning. the director said there had been plenty of attempts to hack it in the past. they noticed that and it is not unusual in todays world. france to an extent it reeling from the attacks on the newspaper charlie hebdo back in january and followed by the attack on the kosher supermarket and attacks on two police officers in paris. the prime minister called it una...

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