Security News > 2020 > July > Russian Found Guilty of Hacking LinkedIn, Formspring, Dropbox
A Russian national accused of hacking into online platforms LinkedIn, Formspring, and Dropbox was found guilty by a United States jury last week.
The man, Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 32, was arrested in 2016 in the Czech Republic, and remained incarcerated there for two years, before being extradited to the U.S. In 2016, U.S. authorities charged Nikulin with accessing without authorization the systems of LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring in 2012, using stolen employee credentials.
Nikulin, who owned luxury cars and watches, is believed to have made more money from the theft of Bitcoin than from the trading of usernames and passwords.
According to evidence presented at the trial, Nikulin hacked into the computers of employees at LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, and installed malware that provided him with remote control of the machines and allowed him to steal login information.
Nikulin was found guilty of hacking into the systems of the online services and of trafficking stolen data.