Baratov’s driveway appears to be a revolving stand for  luxury autos

The U.S. Department of Justice said Baratov who also goes by the names “Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov” and “Karim Taloverov” is  a Canadian born in Kazahkstan, notorious for flaunting his wealth online with pictures of his Aston Martin, with a personalized license plate and a Porsche parked in the driveway of his suburban home.But who is this now infamous ‘hackmeister’?
According to thestar, property records show that in 2015, Baratov and a middle-aged married couple named Akhmet Tokbergenov and Dinara Tokbergenova, bought a home in an Ancaster subdivision for $642,500, taking out a mortgage of $514,000.
The home was listed for sale on March 13,  for about $930,000 but was abruptly delisted two day later.
The man at the center of the largest data breach in history as of three years ago, is a 22-year-old body proud, fitness buff. He claims 11 visits to the gym a week, uses performance enhancing drugs that have been described as ‘experimental biohacking’.

In a photo he wrote about his new $399 black stainless steel Apple Watch 2 – with a ‘very high quality leather band’ he bought separately. All of his assets could now be seized by the US authorities if he is convicted.
Among the other cars he claimed to own were an Audi, a Porsche, a Lamborghini and three BMWs.
All of his assets could now be seized by the US authorities if he is convicted.

Among the other cars he claimed to own were an Audi, a Porsche, a Lamborghini and three BMWs.
US authorities confirmed that he did in fact have the Aston Martin and a black Mercedes-Benz sedan, and vehicle records show that he took out loans of $104,000 and $65,000 for each of them respectively.

‘Gym Rat’:  Baratov poses for a selfie in the gym

On Facebook Baratov described the vehicles as his ‘Darth Vader & Storm Trooper combo’ as one was black and the other was painted white.
In a photo he wrote about his new $399 black stainless steel Apple Watch 2 – with a ‘very high quality leather band’ he bought separately.
He wrote that it ‘feels like a true James Bond gadget driving my Aston Martin’ and that he was ‘just in love with that leather band, quality is as high as it can get’.
High school friends said that Baratov was already rich by the time he was in seventh grade.
Jake Hagen told the Toronto Star: ‘He had the biggest amount of disposable income that I’d ever seen for a person that age.
‘He bought his friends everything [like] clothes, and he’d take them all out to dinner.

Hackanova Baratov bragged about his luxury lifestyle on social media. These assets stand to be seized by the US government if he is convicted

 Baratov has been charged with conspiring to commit access device fraud, conspiring to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiring to commit computer fraud and abuse. Pictured, a police transport vehicle leaves the John Sopinka Courthouse, where Karim Baratov appeared in front of a judge in Ontario on Wednesday

Baratov’s other main interest appears to have been the gym, and he documented his dramatic weight loss on social media.
Among the numerous posts of him flexing his tattooed muscles was one in which he said his ‘body feels like a little science project’ because he was taking so many bodybuilding supplements.
In a Facebook post Baratov wrote: ‘It feels like Christmas again! Finally SARM RAD-140 Testolone got delivered. Been dying to try it!!’

Nice, generous guy: Old classmates recall Baratov gan flaunting his wealth in high school

One acquaintance, Vadim Polonski, who runs a Toronto-based telecommunications company, told the Wall Street Journal that he met Baratov at charity events organized by car enthusiasts: ‘He’s a super nice guy. I never really knew what he did but I always wondered because it seemed that he was doing really well,’ Polonski said.
For  Shane Leo who attended Ancaster High School with Baratov, he was a ‘loyal friend’. Leo  the Toronto Star:  ‘Anything that he has done in the past does not define him now…He always motivates me to be the best I can be and has been a very positive impact on my life.’
Baratov was proud of his artistic side and posted what he claimed were his pencil sketches including renditions of the Mona Lisa and a nude portrait of Kate Winslet in the film Titanic.
In another he drew himself as The Terminator and also sketched a sack full of money and a pole dancer.

‘Be careful who you trust.’

As he appeared before the Judge on Wednesday, the full list of indictees in the Yahoo Inc. data breach include two Russian spies, Dmitry Dokuchaev, 33, an alleged FSB operative and his superior officer in the FSB Igor Sushchin, 43, have also been indicted over the Yahoo breach along with a 29-year-old Russian born hacker, Alexsey Alexseyevich Belan.
US Federal grand juries have indicted Belan twice before, in 2012 and 2013, for computer fraud and abuse, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft involving three US-based e-commerce companies and the FBI placed Belan on its ‘Cyber Most Wanted’ list.