A Russian hacker has been sentenced to more than seven years in an American criminal for stealing the credentials of 117 million users of LinkedIn, Dropbox and the defunct social networking site Formspring, according to federal prosecutors Yevgeniy Nikulin, 32, was sentenced in July after a six-day jury trial in San Francisco in what was believed to be one of the largest knowledge gaps in American history. Prosecutors said in Moscow that Array Nikulin had hacked into the company’s computers and installed malware on them, allowing it to control them remotely. and download user knowledge bases, adding encrypted passwords. He was arrested while traveling in the Czech Republic in 2016 and extradited to the United States. His trial was the first in Northern California since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. He sentenced Nikulin to 88 months in prison. US District Judge William Alsup said he was looking to send a deterrent message to hackers, adding to those operating abroad, according to a statement through San Francisco. Federal Attorney David Anderson.
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