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Canadian Man Extradited for University Supercomputer Hack
A Canadian man, Ryan Roach, has been extradited to the United States to face charges of hacking into university computers to steal login credentials and secretly mine cryptocurrency. The federal grand jury indicted Roach and a co-defendant, Mathiew Stubbings, on charges of conspiracy to obtain information from and damage a protected computer, obtaining information from a protected computer, and intentionally damaging a protected computer. The pair targeted U.S. educational institutions with supercomputers between June 2016 and December 2019, deploying malware to steal credentials and force computers to mine cryptocurrency for their own benefit. Victims included institutions in New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, with the Justice Department not specifying which cryptocurrency was mined.