Former Yahoo Employee Admits Hacking into 6000 Accounts for Sexual Content

An ex-Yahoo! worker has pleaded hangdog to misusing his entry astatine issues firm to hack into issues accounts of practically 6,000 Yahoo customers inward search of secret and private data, chiefly sexually expressed photos and movies.



In accordance with an press note discharged past issues Uranium.S. Exchequer Section, Neruda Daniel Ruiz, a 34-year-old resident of Ca and former Yahoo package engineer, absorbent accessing Yahoo inner methods to {compromise} accounts belonging to youthful ladies, together with his private buddies and piece of work colleagues.

One time helium had entry to issues customers' Yahoo accounts, Ruiz so worn info obtained from customers' netmail messages and their business relationship's login entry to hacking into their iCloud, Gmail, Fb, DropBox, and different on-line accounts inward search of more than secret stuff.

Likewise this, Ruiz besides made copies of secret photos and movies that helium discovered inward issues private accounts of Yahoo customers from their license and ill them along a secret laptop astatine his house, based on fed prosecutors.



Nonetheless, after leak of his colleagues astatine issues firm seen issues suspicious business relationship activeness, Ruiz so ruined his secret laptop and fought drive containing issues purloined stuff inward an try to efface whatsoever proofs.

Ruiz was indicted past a fed grand panel along 4th Apr and aerated with leak depend of laptop intrusion and leak depend of interception of a wire communicating.



Nonetheless, below issues supplication understanding, Ruiz has pledged hangdog to a ace depend of laptop intrusion, for which helium might human face upwardly to 5 eld inward prison house and a $250,000 restitution high-quality for his victims.



Ruiz is presently along redemption along a $200,000 bond arsenic helium awaits sentence listening to along Feb 3, 2020.

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