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October 5, 2018

U.S. Indicts Russians for Hacking Anti-Doping Orgs, Targeting Nuclear Sites
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The Justice Department has indicted seven Russian agents for conspiring
to hack the computers of anti-doping officials who uncovered a massive
ring of Russian state-sponsored cheating by athletes ahead of the 2016
Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said Thursday the
seven agents have ties to the GRU, Russia's military intelligence body;
he said they went on to attempt hacks against other targets.

U.S. Attorney Scott Brady: "They targeted Westinghouse, a nuclear power
company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that supplied nuclear fuel to
the Ukraine. They targeted the Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons, which was investigating the use of chemical weapons in
Syria and the poisoning of a former GRU officer and his daughter in the
UK, and they targeted a lab in Switzerland that analyzed the nerve agent
used in that poisoning."



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