A Russian news report says an intelligence agent charged by the U.S. in the hacking of half a billion Yahoo user accounts worked at an investment bank owned by Mikhail Prokhorov..
The report Saturday in the respected business newspaper Kommersant cited a source as saying Igor Sushchin worked for Renaissance Capital as a security director. The newspaper cited Renaissance Capital as saying Sushchin's employment was terminated on Thursday, the day after the U.S. Justice Department announced its case. The report did not say if the company knew he was an intelligence agent.
Renaissance Capital could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press.