"And I don't care, I am the owner of Lamboghini"

Russian hacker Evgeny Nikulin threatens in the United States 32 years in prison

The Russian Evgeny Nikulin, who was arrested in Prague by the US Order, the Federal Court of the Northern District of California was charged from five points, including penetration into computer databases, abduction of personal data, and causing damage to computers to the owners of computers.

100 million accounts

The objects of Nikulin’s attacks were LinkedIn, Dropbox, FormSpring and Google, whose headquarters are located in a silicone valley. The Russian also appears under the names of Chinabig 01, DEX .007, Valery. Krutov 3, itblackhat.

The large jury of the federal court of the city of Auckland, California, recognized the evidence presented by the prosecutor’s office to arrest and initiate a criminal case against a citizen of the Russian Federation. In the event of a recognition of Evgeny Nikulin, guilty of him threatens the total punishment for all five points in 32 years in prison and a fine of $ 1 million, the document that NT has. At least three more accomplices who participated in the abduction of personal information, the names of which have not yet been disclosed, are attributed to a Russian.

In case of recognition of Evgeny Nikulin guilty, he faces the total punishment for all five points in 32 years in prison and a fine of $ 1 million, the document says that NT has NT

It also follows that Evgeny Nikulin made the first attack on one of the Linkedin accounts back in March 2012, using the name and password of the remote access of one of the employees of the company that appears as Nb, it is possible about the abduction of data of 100 million accounts, as previously reported by this social network.

Course on Prague

29-year-old Yevgeny Nikulin was detained by law enforcement agencies of the Czech Republic on October 5, but information was released only on October 19. Prague expects an official request from the US authorities to extradition until December 4.

The Russian, wanted by Interpol, carelessly left his automobile route to Prague on Instagram social network - by the way, the account was opened under the eloquent name I. TAK. Soidet. In one of the photos, he poses against the backdrop of a white car, the signature reads - "And I don't care, I am the owner of Lamboghini." According to the police, the detainee did not resist, but lost consciousness, and he was provided with medical care.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova regarded the detention of Nikulin as the next fact of the American "hunting for Russians."

“The Russian Foreign Ministry and the embassy in Prague are actively working with the Czech authorities in order to prevent the extradition of a Russian citizen in the United States. The corresponding demarche through diplomatic channels was undertaken, ”Interfax quoted Zakharov.

The accusation and decision of the large jury were published on October 21. On the same day, on the eastern and western coasts of the United States, attacks on the servers of many American companies - Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb, Reddit, SoundCloud and New York Times were trimmed. At the time of preparation of the material, the US intelligence services did not put forward versions about who could stand behind an organized failure of access to these websites.