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The 2012 LinkedIn hack refers to the computer hacking of LinkedIn on June 5, 2012. Passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts were stolen. Yevgeniy Nikulin was convicted of the crime and sentenced to 88 months in prison.
Czech police arrested Nikulin in Prague on October 5, 2016, in connection with the 2012 hacking and data theft of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring. [5] [6] [7]According to a report by TV Rain, his arrest may have been the result of a cooperative effort between the U.S. and Sergei Mikhailov (FSB).
It took the company six days to notice the hack. [217] The hack currently sits as the largest-ever breach in the cryptocurrency sector by dollar value. [218] It further damaged the value of SLP. [219] On 8 April 2022, Sky Mavis said it expected it would be able to recover some of the funds, but it would take several years. [220]
Mustafa Al-Bassam (born January 1995) is an Iraqi- British computer security researcher, hacker, and co-founder of Celestia Labs. [1] Al-Bassam co-founded the hacker group LulzSec in 2011, which was responsible for several high profile breaches.
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This action is known as the 2012 LinkedIn hack. In response to the incident, LinkedIn asked its users to change their passwords. Security experts criticized LinkedIn for not salting their password file and for using a single iteration of SHA-1. [179]
On October 6, 2012, the group posted on two Twitter feeds; both claimed to have hacked the ISP Orange. The first post, from the official Twitter account, was a pastebin, containing table, columns, and databases of the Orange website.
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