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US charges two Canadians accused of hacking US universities
- On Tuesday, Ryan James Roach, 35, of Saskatchewan appeared in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York after his October 28 extradition, following a federal grand jury indictment charging him and 41-year-old Mathiew James Stubbings with hacking university supercomputers.
- Between June 2016 and December 2019, Roach and Stubbings used virtual private servers in Europe and the United States to conceal identities, deploying malware on university supercomputers to mine Electroneum cryptocurrency and steal more than 1,900 login credentials.
- According to court documents, the breach caused roughly $337,000 in damages to at least one institution. Each defendant faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
- Roach pleaded not guilty during his Tuesday arraignment in Rochester, New York, while extradition proceedings for Stubbings remain underway in Canada as prosecutors continue seeking his transfer.
- Investigators with the FBI traced a digital trail linking the defendants to breaches at educational institutions across New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, involving complex cybercrimes including rootkits and compromised systems for vulnerability research.
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cybernoz.comOfficials extradite Canadian man to US for alleged cryptomining spree
Ryan Roach and his alleged co-conspirator, Mathiew Stubbings, are accused of compromising U.S. universities’ computers and taking over processing power to mine for cryptocurrency.
·Washington, United States
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The Saskatoon man allegedly illegally exploited the computing power of computers from American universities for cryptocurrency mining.
·Montreal, Canada
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