The 29-year-old could face over 30 years in prison if found guilty.
A Russian citizen has been arrested in the Czech Republic and indicted in connection with massive breaches: the 2012 attack on LinkedIn and the subsequent attack on Dropbox.
The man, 29-year-old Yevgeniy Nikulin, from Moscow, also allegedly targeted Formspring, a social networking service now known as Spring.me that’s a portal for the dating service Twoo.
According to the indictment, unsealed on Friday, Nikulin allegedly targeted a LinkedIn employee with malware so as to steal his access credentials.
The 2012 LinkedIn leak meant that millions of passwords for the professional networking site were dumped online.
That’s bad enough, but then came the news that 60% of the enormous trove of credentials had been cracked within hours.