...We are here today to announce that a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York indicted nine Iranians for conspiring to hack into computers and defraud American and foreign universities, businesses, and government agencies.
I want to caution you that an indictment is not a finding of guilt. In the American judicial system, defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.
The indictment alleges that the defendants worked on behalf of the Iranian government, specifically the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
They hacked the computer systems of approximately 320 universities in 22 countries. 144 of the victims are American universities. The defendants stole research that cost the universities approximately $3.4 billion to procure and maintain.
The stolen information was used by the Revolutionary Guard or sold for profit in Iran...
The Iranian hackers are still in Iran.
Send Rosenstein to go find them .....
The Iranians are rolling in the dough. Obama gave them $1.5 billion in unmarked cash and another $150 billion to help the develop nukes to use against us and now they hack us for a cool $3.4 billion.
Wonder how much came from Ivy League school endowmens?
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...what about the Russians?
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