U.S. authorities said Russian intelligence officers backed the massive 2014 hack against Yahoo Inc., but the hacker at the center of the allegations is a 29-year-old who has eluded Western law-enforcement agencies for several years. Alexsey Belan, a Latvian-born Russian national, has been named in two prior U.S. federal indictments for crimes dating back to 2012. Contents of those charges haven’t been disclosed until this week, but...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 17, 2017 00:00 UTC