Finally extradited from Europe, suspected LinkedIn hacker faces US charges
Ars Technica 2018-03-30
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A Russian man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring made his first appearance in federal court on Friday.
In a brief hearing before a federal magistrate judge in San Francisco, Yevgeniy Nikulin pleaded not guilty to illegally accessing computers belonging to those companies in 2012.
Nikulin was arrested on October 5, 2016, but he was only very recently extradited from the Czech Republic to the United States. In the Czech Republic, Nikulin's attorneys and the Russian government attempted to get him sent back home to face significantly lesser criminal charges dating back to 2009.