HAMILTON, Ontario: The Canadian charged in connection with a massive hack of Yahoo accounts that the United States says was a Russian plot is a young man who has boasted on social media of his wealth and love of expensive cars, online accounts show.
Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old dual Kazakh-Canadian citizen, is fighting extradition to face US charges he was paid by Russian intelligence agents to break into e-mail accounts. The 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo Inc accounts was at the time the largest ever such breach.
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