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A wide-ranging series of cyberattacks by Chinese hackers has been uncovered by cybersecurity firm Accenture Security’s iDefense. The hackers’ target, according to The Wall Street Journal? At least 27 universities located across the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia.

A May 28 indictment unsealed Monday identifies four Chinese nationals as suspects in an international hacking scheme. COURTESY PHOTO   SAN DIEGO — A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging four nationals and residents of the People’s Republic of China with a campaign to hack into the computer systems of dozens of victim companies, universities and government entities in the United States and abroad between 2011 and 2018, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern Distr...