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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 hasn't 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. fsb agents...

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 hasn't 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. fsb agents. and this is interesting because we're told today this indictment about the yahoo! thing ...

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 for treason in russia, that same guy has turned up in an american indictment on a totally unrelated h...

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, the same guy already under arrest for treason in russia, that same guy has turned up in an american...

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 you're 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 case. they're members of the fsb, the success or agency to the kgb and federal prosecutors say they'r...