U.S. prosecutors charged 17 alleged members of Iran-based Mabna Institute for their involvement in a years-long hacking campaign. Six defendants attempted to extort approximately $6 million in Bitcoin from HBO during the 2017 breach. The group stole at least 31.5 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property. Mabna Institute targeted more than 100,000 professor accounts and compromised roughly 8,000 accounts across 144 U.S. universities and 178 foreign universities. The U.S. State Department is offering rewards of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of five defendants.
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