U.S. indicts hackers over terabytes worth of intellectual property theft
The Trump administration has announced indictments and sanctions against multiple hackers who acted as contractors for a secretive branch of Iran’s armed forces. On Friday, the Justice Department unsealed charges against nine Iranian nationals for hacking into the networks of multiple U.S. universities, municipal governments and other American businesses. The hackers sought to steal research and leverage the high bandwidth networks for future operations. A senior U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity explained the White House believes the punishment will be more damaging than similar indictments against other nation-states that have attacked U.S. companies, like Russia or China. This is because many of those named are private citizens that currently enjoy the ability to travel internationally and some even own assets abroad. Government officials do not expect the same from those indicted in previous instances. “These nine Iranian nationals allegedly stole more than 31 terabytes of documents and […]
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