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Midweek Roundup: U.S. Officials Accuse Iran of Bank Hacking, Michigan Justice Faces Allegations of Laundering, and More
printU.S. officials believe that Iran is behind a recent wave of cyber-attacks against large American banks, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The attacks, which targeted Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and others, did not involve breaches of bank account information and were likely in retaliation of U.S. sanctions against Iran, U.S. officials believe. More The U.S. State Department blacklisted Tuesday two men allegedly responsible for the 2008 deaths of an American diplomat and an employee of the Agency for International Development in Sudan. Abdelbasit Alhaj Alhassan Haj Hamad and Mohamed Makawi Ibrahim Mohamed were convicted of murder and...
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