Thread: Suspected Russian Hacker Indicted in US

The Russian national who was accused by American officials of hacking U.S. targets and arrested earlier this month in the Czech capital was indicted by a federal grand jury in the state of California, U.S. officials said Friday.

Yevgeniy Nikulin, 29, of Moscow was arrested October 5 by officials in Prague, where he remains in custody, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Department of Justice.

In the indictment, filed Thursday, Nikulin was charged with computer intrusion and identity theft.

Czech authorities this week said the suspect was detained in downtown Prague in response to an Interpol warrant issued at the request of the United States, and he now faces a Czech extradition hearing, according to RFE/RL's Current Time TV.

Hours after news emerged of Nikulin's arrest, the professional networking service LinkedIn issued a statement suggesting the development was connected to a 2012 breach of its members' information. In May, LinkedIn acknowledged that intrusion compromised more than 100 million of its users' passwords.​

No date has been set for Nikulin's extradition hearing, but Czech authorities said the man would remain in custody until that process.

The Russian Embassy in Prague told Current Time that Moscow will be seeking his return to Russia. Moscow, an embassy source said, rejects "the U.S. practice of forcing the entire world to enforce its extraterritorial jurisdiction."

Interpol had issued a so-called Red Notice for the alleged Russian hacker, a designation for "wanted international fugitives."

Current Time's investigation uncovered Nikulin's Instagram account under the handle "i.tak.soidet," displaying a taste for luxury cars and jewelry and a digital trail that led through Belarus and Poland to the Czech Republic during the weeks before he was arrested.

The Instagram account went private shortly after Current Time's Russian-language report was published October 20. Soon after that, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed Nikulin’s identity for journalists in Moscow.

"The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Embassy in Prague are actively working with the Czech authorities to prevent the extradition of a Russian citizen to the United States," she added.

The detention of Nikulin shows Washington is mounting a global manhunt against Russian citizens, Reuters quoted Zakharova as saying Thursday.

Suspected Russian Hacker Indicted in US

Connected to Russkie govt?

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Connected to Russkie govt?

No shit Sherlock.

"The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Embassy in Prague are actively working with the Czech authorities to prevent the extradition of a Russian citizen to the United States," she added.

^Some countries do actually try to protect their citizens from illegal deportation. I know an old fashioned principle.

Are you suggesting VOA is not a propaganda source?

Originally Posted by OhOh

^Some countries do actually try to protect their citizens from illegal deportation. I know an old fashioned principle.

Are you suggesting VOA is not a propaganda source?

I think you mean "Putin always protects his hired criminals".

Perhaps you prefer the Guardian version. It seems the thicko comrade from the embassy doesn't know what an Extradition Treaty is.

Russia’s Tass and RIA Novosti news agencies quoted Prague’s Russian embassy spokesman, Alexey Kolmakov, as saying that it was insisting that the suspect be handed over to Russia.

“The embassy has been taking all necessary efforts to protect the interests of this Russian citizen. We are in contact with his attorney,” the embassy statement said.
“Russia repudiates Washington’s policy of imposing its extraterritorial jurisdiction on all countries. We insist that the detainee is handed over to Russia.”

Hmmmm I wonder who the Czechs trust more, the wannabe soviet imperialist or the US?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rrested-prague

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Connected to Russkie govt?

No shit Sherlock.

"The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Embassy in Prague are actively working with the Czech authorities to prevent the extradition of a Russian citizen to the United States," she added.

Show me the Russkies connection, dumb, old, Harry.

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Connected to Russkie govt?

No shit Sherlock.

"The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Embassy in Prague are actively working with the Czech authorities to prevent the extradition of a Russian citizen to the United States," she added.

Show me the Russkies connection, dumb, old, Harry.

Maybe you should ask the Russians that are so desperate to get him back, you moron.

Originally Posted by david44

Hungary is the only other democratic place I know where overt antisemitism is widespread and sociaily acceptable

Really, I didn't experience that at all.
Whereabouts in Hungary did you stay?
Attitudes vary radically in so many things from region to region.

Originally Posted by david44

Knowing a few Czechs and Slovaks and Svoboda's friends in Moravia they prefer and trust Russia

I don't know who these friends of yours are but close friends of my family are both Czech and Slovaks and they despise the Russians and do not in anyway trust them. There is good reason that they are both members of NATO.

I know from my dealings with Poles, they detest Russians more than the Krauts.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Look, if it's broadcast by VOA it's the truth.

Exactly which bit of the story are you questioning?

For reference here is a list of countries NOT having an extradition Treaty with Ameristan <sic>.

None of which, funnily enough, is the Czech Republic. What's the relevance?

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by david44

Knowing a few Czechs and Slovaks and Svoboda's friends in Moravia they prefer and trust Russia

I don't know who these friends of yours are but close friends of my family are both Czech and Slovaks and they despise the Russians and do not in anyway trust them. There is good reason that they are both members of NATO.

Can't for the fucking life of me imagine why.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Exactly which bit of the story are you questioning?

From the first to the last letter of your posts, OK.

So you don't believe this person has been arrested?

You don't believe the US are seeking his extradition?

You don't believe Russia are demanding he's handed over?

Are you just really fucking thick?

Originally Posted by OhOh

Judging from from the photo, the lack of bomb craters, buildings standing and people walking around without AK37s, it seems the tanks went in to the city without a bomb being dropped on a hospital/school/children's home being bombed back to the stone age. There does seem to be some concern for snipers on the rooftops though.

How quaint that some still believe in the legal requirements to invade a country.

I'm touched harry, touched.

Yes, all of the Eastern bloc countries were ecstatic at being invaded by Russia and occupied for decades.

I mean when they left, there was no celebration or anything was there? Just tinges of sadness.

Ah, the Russian.

Said enough times and any dumb twat will believe it. Ain't that right HB?

Russians are bad. Russians are bad. It says so in Medal of Honor!

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

Said enough times and any dumb twat will believe it.

Infowars speaking of dumb twats.

hahahhaaa

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

were ecstatic at being invaded by Russia and occupied for decades.

Quite possibly, one wonders what their feelings are now, still ecstatic or remembering old times.

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

Ah, the Russian.

Said enough times and any dumb twat will believe it. Ain't that right HB?

Russians are bad. Russians are bad. It says so in Medal of Honor!

Your brain appears to be malfunctioning again. Can I recommend you try some Infowars "Brain force" which is guaranteed to raise your IQ into double digits?

Originally Posted by OhOh

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

were ecstatic at being invaded by Russia and occupied for decades.

Quite possibly, one wonders what their feelings are now, still ecstatic or remembering old times.

You are clueless. Have you traveled to either nation? Do you know anyone who lives in those states? I thought not. Go back to slurping up RT and Sputnik propaganda you imbecile.

Originally Posted by david44

Originally Posted by crackerjack101

Attitudes vary radically in so many things from region to region.

Absolutely a decade ago I saw Demos by Jobbik with swastikas outside the National Gallery a Jewish friend was beaten up at nygati pu .

I lived at Oktagon Ter in heart of Buda then on a vineyard near the old Airport and Leninist statues alos worked on Romania frontier and many asked was I Jewish.

While I agree not all Hungarians are like that those that were were extremely overt and recent refusal of refugees and referendum confirm that.

As to bsnub could say same but was there just 2 months ago and the mood is very nationalist I listened to a friends father congratulating people for removing Jews and a desire for no more foreigners.

These are anecdootes

Viktor Orbán and his responsibility for rising antisemitism in Hungary
hungarianfreepress.com/.../viktor-orban-and-his-responsibility-for-rising-antisemitism...
Jul 19, 2016 - Quite a political storm is brewing in Hungary, after Ronald S. Lauder of ... Orbán's responsibility for the rise in anti-Semitism

Only half in whoe city but
but in Ujpest and Szentendre higher
Half of Budapest residents are anti-Semites? - Hungarian Free Press
hungarianfreepress.com/.../half-of-budapest-residents-are-anti-semites-the-dramatic-sp...
Apr 1, 2015 - The poll shows a significant rise in antisemitism, with the number of Hungarians who are seen as “rejecting” Jews on a purely “emotional” level


Anti-Semitic incidents in Czech Republic skyrocketed in 2014 - Jewish ...
Haaretz - Israel News | Haaretz.com › Jewish World › Jewish World News
Haaretz
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the Czech Republic rose by more than 200 percent last year, ... “It is clear that the Czech Republic's Jewish community becomes a target of anti-Semitism

In both countries as sanctions on Russia hit poor and mulim hordes to be forced on them by EU the xenophobia is growing, while no personal experience a Warsaw Dr I worked with and 100% trustworthy sees Poland in same boat.

Of course racism was normal under Ottomans Czar and Habsburgs Nazis Commies so a hard nut to crack

What does this have to do with Russian hackers being extradited again?

There are Jooo haters everywhere, including here.

And racist, homophobic twats.

Agreed I didn't quote all of the comments which explained how Russians were viewed, as you say haters gonna hate, fortunately for all its faults poverty , nationalism and refugees the locals seem hardly disturbed by the small number of farangs dotted here, there are more Jin Haw, KMT,Hmong,Lao and other hill tribes and visiting our Friday market everyone seems to rub along.

Off Topic of Russki espionage I know but I think many of the tensions in developed countries with welfare states like EU Oz and UK is that newcomers are seen as free riders on Health Education and welfare that other existing , retired taxpayers and their ancestors have funded at high price.
As there's not much free welfare here there's less resentment