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Ninth Circuit overturns $1.7 million restitution order for Russian hacker

Posted on December 23, 2021 by Dissent

Maria Dinzeo reports:

Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin is off the hook for $1.7 million in restitution a federal judge ordered him to pay four tech companies whose user databases he breached in 2012.

The Ninth Circuit overturned the award Wednesday, finding insufficient support for the amount of resources the companies claim to have spent trying to repair the damage Nikulin caused.

Read more at Courthouse News.

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