Its founder Sci-Hub, Alexandra Elbakyan, reported that after a legal process, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) gained access to her Google account data. 
Google itself informed her of the data release this week, noting that due to the court decision, the company was not able to inform it earlier.
In January 2021, Twitter suspended the official Sci-Hub account, and since then all site updates have appeared on Elbakyan's personal account. A new tweet this week reveals that Google had to hand over its FBI account details.
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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 being investigated by the US Department of Justice on suspicion that she "may" be working with Russian intelligence to "steal US military secrets".
They were not published data that supported those claims, but the publication said 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 reasons to be suspicious of me: after all, I have training in security computers and I was a hobby hacker in my teens," Elbakyan said. "But hacking is not my profession and I have no business with any intelligence agency."
He added: "I think the Russian government has been investigating whether I am a Russian spy since they learned about Sci-Hub, and that makes a lot of sense: a Russian project that uses university accounts to access certain information, of course. is suspicious, but in fact Sci-Hub was a personal project of mine ".
