This week, a former software engineer at Yahoo pleaded guilty in the United States to hacking Yahoo user accounts. He was mainly motivated by the search for sexual images and videos.
The 34-year-old man admitted to having used access to the internal Yahoo network for hacking nearly 6,000 email accounts by targeting young women, including his personal and professional entourage.
" He cracked user passwords and gained access to internal Yahoo systems to compromise Yahoo accounts "reads a statement from the Northern California attorney's office.
The man also compromised accounts from third-party services like iCloud, Facebook, Gmail and Dropbox through password reset requests that were received in his victims' Yahoo mailboxes.
Copies of the images and videos gleaned were saved to a personal hard drive. " After his employer observed the suspicious activity on the account, he admitted to destroying the computer and the hard drive on which he had stored the images. "
Reyes Daniel Ruiz faces a five-year prison sentence and a $ 250,000 fine. The sentence will be known in February 2020.
