On March 30, 2018, a Russian national charged with illegally accessing and stealing data from the computers of LinkedIn, DropBox, and Formspring made his initial appearance in federal court, following his extradition from the Czech Republic. The defendant, Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, had been indicted for the crimes in 2016 and was detained on an international warrant. United States v. Nikulin, 16-cr-00440 (N.D. Cal.)
