The FBI arrested a Russian man wanted for criminal hacking attacks on U.S. targets. The most well-known occurred in 2012 and the corporation hacked was Mountain View-based LinkedIn.
The man identified by the FBI as Yevgeniy Nikulin was having dinner in a restaurant in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. Agents arrested him without incident. The Russian national is accused of hacking into LinkedIn’s servers back in 2012 and may have compromised the credentials of 100 million users. That information consisting of user names and passwords may have been sold to other hackers.
Seth Rosenblatt is with Parallax, a security news website. “It can be something as benign as creating identities for other people, but that can then lead to identity theft, which is not benign at all,” said Seth Rosenblatt.
LinkedIn issued a response to the arrest.”We are thankful for the hard work and dedication of the FBI in its efforts to locate and capture the parties believed to be responsible for this criminal activity.” For the full article click here
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