https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/30/yahoo_hacker_karim_baratov_jailed/ > The Canadian mercenary hacker who helped Russian agents break into thousands of Yahoo! webmail accounts will be spending up to the next five years behind bars in America. > A US district court judge, sitting in northern California, handed the 60-month sentence to Karim Baratov, who last year eventually pleaded guilty to nine felony counts including hacking, identity theft, and espionage.