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US government confirms arrest of Chinese national accused of stealing COVID research and mass-hacking email servers | TechCrunch

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Xu Zewei was arrested in Italy at the request of U.S. prosecutors.

He is accused of working for a Chinese company that carried out cyberattacks for the Chinese government.

Xu and another Chinese national Zhang Yu are accused in a nine -charge indictment of “hacking and stealing crucial COVID-19 research’s research”.

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