The owner says the email used was However, searching for his handle reveals he was probably behind a much more lucrative #bitcoin exchange hackįurther investigation has revealed that the same email has been involved in stealing more bitcoins from other platforms totaling up to 1532 bitcoins. The website crashed once it was hacked transferring 620 bitcoins to the hacker’s own account. This is the address that ’s owner believes to have caused the website to come to a halt. This is in fact due to the account name that has been used Chinabig01. Although it is not directly clear that it is Nikulin who also stole 620 bitcoins, a Microsoft security researcher Tal Be’ery told Eduard Kovacs of SecurityWeek he is positive that it is the same person. Now, according to the press release from Justice department that discusses Nikulin’s indictment it has been revealed that LinkedIn was not the only company he breached into, in fact, he has been also accused of hacking online file hosting service Dropbox, Social Q&A portal Formspring and stealing a million worth bitcoins from the bitcoin exchange Bitcoin in 2013 and 620 from another exchange.Īuthorities believe Nikulin has allegedly stolen accounts from the aforementioned websites and tried selling them for about $6000. Also Read: Student Arrested for hacking computer and changing grades Initially, authorities revealed he was a suspect in massive LinkedIn data breach in which 117 million user accounts were stolen in 2012 and made available for sale in May 2016. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, the 29-year-oldRussian hacker was arrested in Prague when he was ordering food. Turns out the Russian hacker accused of LinkedIn hack is a bigger fish than expected - The indictment made by Justice department shows he was also behind Dropbox and FormSpring hacks.
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