Russian Man Indicted for Linkedln, Dropbox, and Formspring Intrusions

摘要

On October 20, 2016, a federal grand jury in Oakland, California, indicted Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin 29, of Moscow, Russia, for obtaining information from computers, causing damage to computers, trafficking in access devices, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy. The indictment alleged that Nikulin, accessed computers belonging to Linkedln, Dropbox, and Formspring, each of which has its headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area.The indictment further alleged that the defendant accessed the computers without authorization and that he obtained information from the computers.