Iranian alleged hacker extradited from Montenegro to United States
Amir Barati, a 40-year-old man with Iranian and Turkish citizenship, was extradited from Montenegro to the United States to face wire and computer fraud charges filed in the U.S. Southern District of New York. He is one of 17 Iranian nationals charged in a superseding indictment accusing a campaign since 2013 of stealing data from more than 150 universities and companies, breaching about 8,000 professor email accounts and imposing roughly $3.4 billion in academic data costs; prosecutors say many intrusions served Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The transfer enables U.S. prosecutors to pursue a rare courtroom case against accused Iranian hackers.
Accused Iranian hacker extradited to face U.S. computer and wire fraud.
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The indictment says the campaign began in 2013 and targeted universities and companies…
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