Russia-Hired Hacker Seeks Too-Light Sentence, Gov't Says

By Shayna Posses (April 23, 2018, 7:24 PM EDT) -- The government told a California federal court Saturday that a Canadian "hacker-for-hire" should receive roughly double the almost four-year sentence he claims to deserve for breaking into thousands of email accounts, some at the bidding of Russian government agents tied to a Yahoo cyberattack, saying he downplayed the harm he caused....

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