Russians accused of hacking Yahoo

washington - The United States has two Russian spies accused of hacking into Internet company Yahoo, the data of half a billion users were captured.

The Russians are members of the Russian secret service FSB. They went among others to get names, email addresses and telephone numbers of Yahoo users. The Justice Department in Washington announced Wednesday that the hackers with the Yahoo data could also provide access to some data from Google.

The indictment comes at a time when US-Russian relations are already difficult. Therefore, the accusation that the Russians have tried hacking by influencing the US presidential election. Moscow firmly denies.

The spies Dmitri Dokoetsjajev (33) and Igor Soesjgin (43) put the hackers Aleksei Belan and Karim Baratov to work to 'crack' Yahoo. Belan escaped to Russia and Baratov was arrested in his native Canada, where he is stuck. He is the only one of the four people arrested. The mission of the hackers was to gather at Yahoo information about US government employees.