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Yevgeniy Nikulin (Russian national, convicted 2020)

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LinkedIn password breach

A 2012 intrusion into LinkedIn exposed user passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes. Initially reported as 6.5 million credentials, the full scope of 117 million accounts only emerged in 2016 when the data surfaced for sale on the dark web.

Victim
LinkedIn
Loss
$1.3M
Records
117.0M