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Alleged Silk Typhoon hacker extradited to US

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Feed Name: DataBreaches.Net

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85/100

Date Published: 2026-04-27

Date Updated: 2026-04-28

Author: Dissent

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U.S. authorities have received the extradition of Xu Zewei, a Chinese national accused of acting as a contract hacker for China’s Ministry of State Security and conducting coordinated cyberespionage operations (attributed to the Silk Typhoon group) between February 2020 and June 2021; Xu was arrested in Milan in 2025 and is facing criminal charges in the United States.

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