The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating the intrusion for two years, but it was only in late 2016 that the full scale of the hack became apparent. The FBI indicted four people for the attack, two of whom are Russian spies.
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Russian government agents charged for Yahoo hack
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Mayer: Yahoo on the right track
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