Eight years later, federal authorities re-up charges against alleged Iranian hackers at Mabna Institute

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment accusing 17 individuals tied to Iran’s Mabna Institute of a state‑sponsored campaign to steal research and intellectual property from universities, governments, and companies worldwide, allegedly compromising thousands of academic accounts (including 8,000 at 144 U.S. universities), exfiltrating about 31.5 TB of data, expanding a 2018 case, and prompting a U.S. Rewards for Justice offer for some defendants.