article_snippet: The service providers involved were not named.
article_snippet: Hacked: The data breach compromised almost one billion email addresses across the United States from February 2009 to June 2012 .
article_snippet: This case reflects the cutting-edge problems posed by today's cybercrime cases, where the hackers didn't target just a single company; the hackers infiltrated most of the country's email distribution firms,' said acting U.S. Attorney John A. Horn. '
article_snippet: And the scope of the intrusion is unnerving, in that the hackers didn't stop after stealing the companies' proprietary data
article_snippet: — the companies' then hijacked the companies' own distribution platforms to send out bulk emails and reaped the profits from email traffic directed to specific websites.'