Yahoo engineer gets no jail time after hacking 6,000 accounts to look for porn

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A former Yahoo engineer was sentenced to five years of probation and home confinement for hacking into the personal accounts of more than 6,000 Yahoo Mail users to search for sexually explicit images and videos.

Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, of Tracy, California, will only be allowed to leave his home for work, religious activities, medical appointments, or court-related obligations.

The judge also ordered Ruiz to pay a $5,000 fine and $118,456 in restitution to Yahoo (now Oath), according to court documents obtained by ZDNet.

Ruiz committed his crimes while working at Yahoo as a reliability engineer and in other roles between 2009 and July 2019.
 

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