Iran­ian hack­ers steal aca­d­e­m­ic re­search worth bil­lions from US uni­ver­si­ties, pri­vate com­pa­nies

Re­search da­ta that cost bil­lions of dol­lars to ac­quire were stolen from hun­dreds of uni­ver­si­ties, aca­d­e­m­ic jour­nals, and pri­vate com­pa­nies — in­clud­ing a US biotech among oth­er vic­tims — as part of a mas­sive breach made by Iran­ian hack­ers over the past four years.

That’s ac­cord­ing to the US De­part­ment of Jus­tice, which re­cent­ly an­nounced charges against nine Iran­ian na­tion­als with con­nec­tions to the hack­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion: the Mab­na In­sti­tute.

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