SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced convicted Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin to 88 months in prison for stealing more than 100 million user credentials from LinkedIn, Dropbox ...

After 500 million LinkedIn enthusiasts were affected in a data-scraping incident in April, it's happened again - with big security ramifications.

A Russian hacker has finally been convicted of cyber-attacks on LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring which breached millions of customer accounts, after spending years in custody. Yevgeniy Nikulin, now 32 ...

Source: SlowMist Using LinkedIn for targeted attacks is not a new method, and the North Korean hacker group used a similar tactic in December 2023, posing as a fake Meta recruiter.