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LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring hacker sentenced to 88 months prison


By MYBRANDBOOK


LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring hacker sentenced to 88 months prison

Yevgeniy Nikulin, 32, convicted of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring and stealing the personal information of more than 100 million customers was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison. Nikulin, 32, received the 88-month sentence in federal court in San Francisco.

 

Prosecutors said that in 2012, Nikulin, working from Moscow, hacked the computers of the San Francisco Bay Area companies, installed malware, stole login credentials for employees and used them to obtain customer data such as usernames and passwords that he offered for sale on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum.

 

Nikulin was arrested in Prague in 2016 and extradited to the United States in 2018 after a long extradition battle. His trial began this March but was suspended because the coronavirus pandemic closed the courthouse. The case resumed in July.

 

After a six-day trial, Nikulin was convicted of selling stolen usernames and passwords; installing malware on protected computers; conspiracy; computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft.

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