Three men have been charged by US authorities for their alleged involvement with a huge email breach.
Two Vietnamese men are alleged to have hacked into email providers in the US and stolen 1 billion addresses.
It is believed the two then profited by sending junk mail or spam to tens of millions of the stolen addresses.
A third man also charged is alleged to have helped the hackers launder the money made from the large-scale spamming scheme.
Also charged is Canadian David-Manuel Santos Da Silva, who, the US alleges, helped Vu and Nguyen generate cash from their stolen email addresses and by laundering the money they made.
Da Silva was arrested in Florida last month and is due to be arraigned before a judge this week.
"Large-scale and sophisticated international cyber hacking rings are becoming more problematic for the law enforcement community that is faced with the challenges of identifying them and laying hands on them," said FBI agent J Britt Johnson, who led the agency's investigation into the breach.
WENN.com
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