Three Charged with Theft of 1 Billion E-mail Addresses

Two Vietnamese citizens and a Canadian have been charged with running a massive cyber fraud ring that stole 1 billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Court documents did not identify the email companies that were victimized, though the Justice Department described the hacking spree as "one of the largest" data breaches uncovered in U.S. history.