VOA慢速英語：美國指控俄羅斯2014年入侵雅虎

US Charges Russians in 2014 Attack on Yahoo

美國指控俄羅斯2014年入侵雅虎

The United States has announced charges against four people suspected of stealing information from at least 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014.

美國宣布起訴2014年涉嫌竊取至少5億個雅虎用戶賬戶信息的四名個人。

The four are accused of targeting the email accounts of Russian and U.S. government officials, reporters, financial services employees and military personnel, officials said.

這四人被指控攻擊俄羅斯和美國政府官員、記者、金融公司雇員以及軍事人員的電子郵箱賬戶。

Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord announced the indictments on Wednesday. She said the defendants are two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and two computer experts who helped them in the attack.

司法部助理部長瑪麗·麥科德(Mary McCord)于周三宣布了起訴書。她說，被告是俄羅斯聯(lián)邦安全局的兩名官員以及協(xié)助他們入侵的兩名電腦專家。

The FSB officers, identified as Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, "protected, directed, facilitated and paid criminal hackers to collect information from computer intrusions in the United States and elsewhere," she said.

麥科德表示，這兩名俄羅斯聯(lián)邦安全局官員是德米特里·多庫恰耶夫(Dmitry Dokuchaev)和伊戈爾·薩許欽(Igor Sushchin)，他們“保護、指揮、協(xié)助以及雇傭犯罪黑客，通過入侵美國及其它地區(qū)的計算機來收集信息。”

One of the hackers, Alexsey Belan, is on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's list of most-wanted cyber criminals. The other, Karim Baratov, was arrested Tuesday in Canada, McCord said.

麥科德表示，其中一名黑客亞歷克斯·貝蘭(Alexsey Belan)上了美國聯(lián)邦調查局頭號通緝網(wǎng)絡罪犯的名單。另一名黑客克瑞·巴拉托夫(Karim Baratov)周二在加拿大被逮捕。

A grand jury in California indicted the four men for computer hacking, economic espionage and other crimes.

加州的一個大陪審團以計算機入侵、經濟間諜和其它罪名起訴了這四名男子。

In the past, the U.S. Justice Department has charged Russian hackers with cybercrime. It has also taken legal action against hackers supported by China and Iran. However, this is the first criminal case brought against Russian government officials.

在過去，美國司法部已經以網(wǎng)絡犯罪起訴過俄羅斯黑客，并且還對伊朗支持的黑客采取過法律行動。然而，這是針對俄羅斯政府官員提起的首起刑事案件。

McCord said the FSB officers' role in the hacking made this crime "much more egregious." She added, "There are no free passes for foreign state-sponsored criminal behavior."

麥科德表示，俄羅斯聯(lián)邦安全局在入侵中扮演的角色使得這種犯罪“更為惡劣。”她補充說，“外國支持的犯罪行為不能逍遙法外。”

The indictments come as U.S. officials are still investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

這些訴訟出臺正值美國官員仍在調查俄羅斯對2016年美國大選可能進行的干預。

Yahoo did not report its 2014 hack until last September. At that time, the Internet service told at least 500 million users that their email addresses, birth dates, and other personal information may have been stolen.

雅虎直到去年9月才報告該公司2014年被非法入侵。當時，這家互聯(lián)網(wǎng)公司告知至少5億名用戶，他們的電子郵件、出生日期以及其它個人信息可能被盜。

Three months later, Yahoo said it found another attack in 2013 affecting about 1 billion accounts.

三個月后，雅虎表示，該公司發(fā)現(xiàn)了2013年發(fā)生的另一起影響10億個賬戶的黑客入侵事件。

In a statement, Chris Madsen, Yahoo's assistant general counsel told the Associated Press, "We're committed to keeping our users and our platforms secure and will continue to engage with law enforcement to combat cybercrime."

雅虎公司總顧問助理克里斯·馬德森(Chris Madsen)在一份聲明中對美聯(lián)社表示：“我們致力于保護我們用戶及平臺的安全，并將繼續(xù)與執(zhí)法機構合作打擊網(wǎng)絡犯罪。”

I'm Jonathan Evans.

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