Yevgeniy N, 29-year-old Russian hacker was arrested inwards Prague on Oct v suspected of participating inwards conducting cyber-attacks against the United States, according to Reuters.
Earlier it was suspected that the hacker could move involved inwards hacking against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), or its presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, intended to influence the presidential election.
However, the latest contestation released past times LinkedIn suggests that the arrest was related to a 2012 information breach at the social network that exposed emails in addition to hashed password of virtually 117 Million users.
"We are thankful for the difficult move in addition to dedication of the FBI inwards its efforts to locate in addition to capture the parties believed to move responsible for this criminal activity," LinkedIn said inwards a statement.
"Following the 2012 breach of LinkedIn fellow member information, nosotros direct keep remained actively involved alongside the FBI's illustration to pursue those responsible."Earlier this year, a hacker nether the nickname "Peace" pose on sale what claimed to move the database of 167 Million emails in addition to hashed passwords, including 117 Million already cracked passwords, belonging to LinkedIn users.
But, it is yet unclear if the arrested hacker is the same 1 who was selling LinkedIn information dump on the Dark Web marketplace a few months ago.
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But if it turns out to move the same one, thus it would move a jackpot for the FBI because 'Peace' is the hacker who was equally good responsible for selling information dumps for MySpace, Tumblr, VK.com, in addition to Yahoo! on the night spider web marketplace.
Czech constabulary said that a courtroom would accept the determination on the hacker's extradition to the U.S., where he is facing charges for his hacking-related crimes.
We volition update the even equally shortly equally nosotros larn official confirmation from the U.S. feds.
