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TheAssociatedPress SACRAMENTO A man who hit Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson in the face with a pie is expected to be formally charged with fel- ony assault on Friday. The mayor and for- mer NBA star was greet- ing people eating at an outdoor charity dinner Wednesday night when a man approached Johnson from behind and shoved the pie in his face. Johnson responded by throwing punches and tackling the man. Police arrested 32-year- old Sean Thompson and held him on $100,000 bail for assaulting a public of- ficial. Johnson's signature achievement in office is securing a $550 million arena for the Sacramento Kings, which Thompson says detracted from more important public issues. District attorney spokeswoman Shelly Orio says prosecutors expect to receive police reports and begin reviewing the case, including the mayor's re- sponse, also on Friday. CRIME Manwhohitmayorof Sacramento with pie to face felony charge RICHPEDRONCELLI—THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sean Thompson talks during a jail interview Thursday in Sacramento. The Associated Press SACRAMENTO The utility that owns four hydroelec- tric dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and Cali- fornia is beginning the for- mal process to tear them down. PacifiCorp petitioned the Federal Energy Regu- latory Commission on Fri- day to transfer ownership of the dams to a new non- profit, which separately re- quested permission to de- commission them. The regulatory filings aretheresultofalandmark agreement earlier this year to allow salmon to return to hundreds of miles of the Klamath River in what fed- eral officials call one of the largest river restoration projects in U.S. history. The agreement also pro- tects farmers and ranch- ers from rising power and water prices as various in- terests work to end long- running water wars in the drought-stricken Klamath basin. OWNERSHIP Application filed to tear down Klamath River dams By Brandon Bailey The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO If a for- eign government is behind the massive computer at- tack that compromised a half billion user accounts at Yahoo, as the company says, the breach could be part of a long-term strategy that's aimed at gathering intelli- gence rather than getting rich. Yahoo says the breach involved users' email ad- dresses, passwords and other information — includ- ingbirthdates—butnotpay- ment card or bank account numbers. Although the sto- len data could still be used in financial crimes, such as identity theft, experts say a foreign intelligence agency might combine the Yahoo files with information from other sources to build exten- sive dossiers on U.S. govern- ment or corporate officials in sensitive positions. "With state-sponsored at- tacks, it's not just financial information that's of value," said Lance Hoffman, co-di- rector of the Cyberspace Se- curity and Privacy Institute at George Washington Uni- versity. "In the long run, if the state accumulates a lot of information on you, and especially if it corroborates that with other sources, it can assemble a pretty good profile." Governments have also been known to hack email accounts to keep tabs on their own citizens or dissi- dents. Experts believe that was one motive behind a 2010 hacking of Google Gmail accounts used by Chi- nese human rights activists. Yahoo hasn't revealed the evidence that led it to blame a "state-sponsored actor" for the latest attack, which the Sunnyvale, California, com- panysaidoccurredtwoyears ago and was discovered only in recent weeks. Some analysts warn that "state sponsored" can be a vague term. It might also be an easy excuse to deflect blame for a company's own security lapses, by suggest- ing it had no hope of defeat- ing hackers who had all the resources of a government intelligence agency behind them, warned Gunter Oll- mann, chief security offi- cer at Vectra Networks, a San Jose, California, secu- rity firm. Yahoo declined comment, but its top security official, Bob Lord, has said the com- pany would make that claim only "when we have a high degree of confidence." In a policy statement last year, Lord also said the com- pany wouldn't release de- tails about why it believes at- tacksarestate-sponsoredbe- cause it doesn't want to risk disclosing its methods of in- vestigating breaches. This wouldn't be the first time that governments were implicated in high-profile hacking attacks. U.S. officials have hinted that China might be to blame for a 2015 breach at the U.S. Office of Person- nel Management, in which background files and even fingerprints of millions of federal employees were sto- len. China denied any offi- cial involvement. More re- cently, news reports say U.S. intelligence officials have blamed Russian spies for the hack of Democratic NationalCommitteefiles,al- though Russia's government has also denied this. Some security experts be- lieve the OPM attack was carried out by the same hackers who also stole data files from large U.S. insur- ance and health-care com- panies in 2014 and 2015. It may have been part of an effort to gather sensitive or compromising information to blackmail or coerce indi- viduals working at a variety of federal agencies. Hackers could also use such personal information to concoct bogus emails and send them to a person's Ya- hoo account, in what might be a sophisticated "phish- ing" scheme aimed at get- ting the target to click on a link containing "spyware" or other malicious computer code. "They'd have the ability to conduct targeted phish- ing attacks against individ- uals with potentially valu- able information, without going through their govern- ment email accounts," said Tim Erlin, senior director of security and risk strat- egy at Tripwire, a cyber-se- curity firm. Similarly, governments might want to target ex- ecutives at multi-national corporations, especially if they'recompetingwithcom- panies based in the country that sponsored the attacks. In such cases, intelligence officials might share use- ful commercial secrets with their home-grown indus- tries, said Jeremiah Gross- man, an official at Senti- nelOne, a Silicon Valley computer security firm. He noted that the 2010 attack on Google was blamed on Chinese hackers who also targeted U.S. companies outside the tech industry. TECHNOLOGY In Yahoo breach, hackers may seek intelligence, not riches MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE If a foreign government is behind the massive computer attack that compromised a half billion user accounts at Yahoo, as the company says, the breach could be part of a long- term strategy that's aimed at gathering intelligence rather than getting rich. PLEASERECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thankyou! Publishedthroughanevent co-sponsorship agreement with The Daily News. 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