Nikulin Indicted

[Zo Zig]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/yevgeniy-nikulin-indicted-hacking-linkedin-dropbox-and-formspring

Russian hacker at the center of the Weiner affair, note three co-conspirators are indicated.
This is the real deal.

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R ......for visibility..

Nice to see some successes on the cyber crime front.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. This is an Oct. 2016 indictment

Not sure of his current status, if he is still overseas, but the US Attorney is, I think, gone, cause news reports say Trump has let them all go.
Possibly the assis' attorneys can do the job, unless Sessions tells them not to, which is likely.

[Jarqui]

3. How is the link to Weiner been established?

[Zo Zig]

4. See article linked

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/27/us-russia-hacking-yevgeniy-nikulin-linkedin-dropbox

Did not note the filing date, thanks.

[lame54]

5. And?

[dooner]

6. Connection explained in The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/27/us-russia-hacking-yevgeniy-nikulin-linkedin-dropbox

There is no acknowledged link between Nikulin’s alleged offences and the hacking of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, but his arrest came just three days before the Obama administration formally accused Russia of stealing emails from the Democratic National Committee and disclosing them through WikiLeaks.

Formspring, one of the sites he allegedly hacked, was the platform used for sexting by Anthony Weiner, the former New York mayoral candidate and husband of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s closest aide. The discovery of emails linked to Clinton on Weiner’s laptop damaged her campaign in its final two weeks after the FBI director, James Comey, revealed their existence.

[yodermon]

7. Key point:

Link to tweet

Use of "conspiracy theorist" as an insult in #TrumpRussia story shows you haven't done any research.
I have. @FBI https://t.co/iNgxlrOSyh

.. do we know who the co-conspirators are?

[MelissaB]

8. Well, here's a shot at who the conspirators might be.

This showed up on Louise Mensch's feed today and I read it for the first time.

I'll post without comment because I really don't know what to say.

The Carolina Conspiracy
February 14, 2017 ~ patribotics
Or, How Vladimir Putin Catfished A US Election With the Collusion of Team Trump

Did Russia invent a criminal case against Anthony Weiner – so their hacker Nikulin could plant Hillary’s emails on his computer?

It was the Comey letter that handed the election to Trump. Even if corrupt elements in the FBI Field Office in New York, penetrated by Russia, forced Comey’s hand – even if Russian hacker Nikulin did plant emails on Anthony Weiner’s computer – there had to be a “separate criminal case” in the first place for the NYPD and FBI to go looking, right?

But what if there wasn’t?

What if Vladimir Putin directed the entire attack – not via a “15 year old girl” from Gaston, North Carolina, but by a hardened group of adult hackers from that state who had penetrated the emails of Director Brennan of the CIA, and doxed and attacked hundreds of FBI and law enforcement personnel?

https://patribotics.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/the-carolina-conspiracy-putin-catfished-weiner-louise-mensch/