Russian man charged with hacking LinkedIn and other tech firms
by Nicky Woolf and the Associated Press from Technology | The Guardian on (#1YXGE)
LinkedIn has suggested the 29-year-old's arrest is tied to a 2012 breach that resulted in more than 100m of its users' passwords being compromised
A Russian man has been charged with hacking and stealing information from computers at LinkedIn and other San Francisco Bay Area companies.
The US attorney's office in San Francisco announced Friday that a grand jury indicted 29-year-old Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, of Moscow, Russia, a day earlier on charges including computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft.
Continue reading...