Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan said that after a legal process, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (or FBI) gained access to her Google Account data. 
Google itself informed her of the disclosure data this week noting that due to the court order, the company was not able to inform her earlier.
In January 2021, the Twitter suspended the official account of Sci-Hub, and all site updates since then, appear on Elbakyan's personal account. A new tweet this week reveals that Google had to hand over its account data to the FBI.
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In an email to Elbakyan dated March 2, 2022, Google announced that following an order issued by the FBI, the company had to hand over the data from Elbakyan's account. According to Google, the court ruling required the company to keep the FBI request a secret. 
The big question remains - why was the research done?
Given the scale of the Sci-Hub and its worldwide reputation, it is possible that a copyright infringement investigation is underway in the United States that could lead to the prosecution of Elbakyan and others involved in the project. However, more serious complaints have been made in the past.
In December 2019, for example, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was investigated by the US Department of Justice on suspicion that he "could" cooperate with the Russian secret services to "steal US military secrets".
No evidence was released to support these claims, but the publication stated that Elbakyan may have collected login credentials from journal subscribers to access academic literature.
first Apple, now Google
(happily I do not use Google or Apple accounts to store sensitive information) pic.twitter.com/puL6te2oaSAlexandra Elbakyan (@ringo_ring) March 3, 2022
"I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have a computer security training and I was a hobby hacker in adolescence," Elbakyan said. "But hacking is not my profession and I have no business with any intelligence service."
He added: "I think whether I'm a Russian spy is being investigated by her government of the US since they found out about Sci-Hub, and that makes a lot of sense: a Russian project, using university accounts to access some information, of course it's suspicious, but in fact Sci-Hub was a personal project of mine ".
