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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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Feds Charge Iranians for Hacking 144 US Universities

The hackers allegedly targeted 100,000 professors' email accounts, managing to compromise 8,000 of them.


By Michael Kan
March 23, 2018 1:39PM EST

Federal investigators have charged nine Iranians for stealing troves of academic and intellectual property data from 144 universities and dozens of private companies in the US.

"The defendants stole research that cost those universities $3.4 billion to procure and maintain," US deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein said in a Friday press conference.

The nine suspects nabbed over 31 terabytes of data and fed it back to the Iranian military, according to the Department of Justice. Employing the hackers was the Mabna Institute, an Iranian government contractor founded by two of the suspects, Rosenstein said. The goal of the institute was to help Iranian universities gain access to scientific research.

In total, 320 universities across 22 countries were attacked. The suspects also breached 47 private companies, along with government offices like the US Department of Labor and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

pcmag.com
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