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China-sponsored hacker stole COVID data from top US universities, labs: feds

  • Jorge Fitz-Gibbon--New York Post
  • published date: 2025-07-08 23:34:52 UTC

"While the world was reeling from a virus that originated in China, the Chinese government plotted to steal US research critical to vaccine development," FBI Houston Special Agent in Charge Douglas Williams said in a statement released Tuesday.

A Chinese national hacked into the computers of major US universities and research labs to steal COVID-19 data as part of a government-sponsored cyberattack during the pandemic, federal prosecutors s… [+2881 chars]