SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A 12-person jury found a trail of digital bread crumbs led to Yevgeniy Nikulin as the hacker responsible for three data breaches in 2012 at LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring and the theft of more than 100 million user credentials.
The trail began with Nick Berry, a LinkedIn engineer whose personal computer was hacked in March 2012. By installing a malicious software program that allowed him to gain access to Berry’s Virtual Private Network— the means by which Berry could log to log in to work remotely— the hacker infiltrated the company’s internal database of user credentials. Tiếp tục đọc “Jury Finds Russian National Guilty of High-Profile Hacks”