{"id":165690,"date":"2019-10-02T19:53:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T11:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1805946\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T19:53:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T11:53:03","slug":"ex-yahoo-engineer-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-6k-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/02\/ex-yahoo-engineer-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-6k-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Yahoo Engineer Pleads Guilty to Hacking 6K Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/yahoo-650x366.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"figcaption\">(via Pentagram)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A former Yahoo software engineer pleaded guilty to hacking into thousands of accounts in search of private and personal records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reyes Daniel Ruiz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndca\/pr\/former-yahoo-software-engineer-pleads-guilty-using-work-access-hack-yahoo-users\"  rel=\"noopener\">admitted on Monday<\/a> that, during his nearly 11-year tenure with the web portal, he illegally copied sexual images and videos from some 6,000 users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 34-year-old worked his way up the Yahoo ranks, first as an operations center engineer, then mail site reliability engineer, and, finally, senior production engineer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Testing the limits of his staff power, Ruiz apparently cracked passwords and accessed internal Yahoo systems to compromise the accounts of young women\u2014including his friends and colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He then made copies of personal content without permission, storing the data on a hard drive at his home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruiz also confessed to infiltrating iCloud, Facebook, Gmail, Dropbox, and other online accounts for which victims registered with their Yahoo email address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When his employer caught on to the suspicious behavior, he destroyed the computer and hard drive that housed the stolen documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yahoo reported the engineer to U.S. law enforcement, and after an investigation by the FBI, Ruiz was formally charged in April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently released under a $200,000 bond, Ruiz pleaded guilty this week to one count of computer intrusion. He now faces a maximum prison term of five years and a fine up to $250,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His sentencing is scheduled for February 2020 in San Jose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/reyes-ruiz-ab9b457\"  rel=\"noopener\">According to his LinkedIn profile<\/a>, Ruiz left Yahoo in July 2018, and is currently working as a senior site reliability engineer at Okta, a Silicon Valley tech firm that specializes in single sign-on (SSO) solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neither Yahoo nor Okta immediately responded to Geek&#8217;s request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More on Geek.com:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/1-billion-yahoo-users-exposed-in-second-record-breaking-hack-1682757\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 Billion Yahoo Users Exposed in Second Record-Breaking Hack<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/yahoo-says-data-from-half-a-billion-accounts-was-stolen-1671899\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yahoo Says Data From Half a Billion Accounts Was Stolen<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/minnesota-cop-awarded-585k-over-unlawful-license-lookups-1793075\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minnesota Cop Awarded $585K Over Unlawful License Lookups<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/yahoo-650x366.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<div>(via Pentagram)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A former Yahoo software engineer pleaded guilty to hacking into thousands of accounts in search of private and personal records. Reyes Daniel Ruiz admitted on Monday that, during his nearly 11-year tenure with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/ex-yahoo-engineer-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-6k-accounts-1805946\/\">Ex-Yahoo Engineer Pleads Guilty to Hacking 6K Accounts<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/02\/ex-yahoo-engineer-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-6k-accounts\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7030,3189,6004,2,2047,2075,2077,7031,7],"tags":[364,398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,372,396,403,412,374,411,395,371,405,404,366],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-H6q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165798,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165690\/revisions\/165798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}