US authorities says Russia’s FSB was behind hack of 2014

According to Sky News, the acting assistant attorney general Mary McCord announced that the four people had been indicted at a news conference in Washington DC.

She said: “Two FSB officers, protected, directed, facilitated and paid criminal hackers to collect information through computer intrusions in the US and elsewhere.”

She said the targets of the hack included security, diplomatic, journalists and military personnel and the cyberattack was used for espionage and financial gain.

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