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Justice Department charges Iranian hackers after ransomware attack

By Kelly Cohen
Published November 28, 2018 4:54pm ET
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Justice Department charges Iranian hackers after ransomware attack
A ransomware demand for the payment of $300 worth of bitcoin sits on the screen of an Apple Inc. Macbook Air laptop infected by the 'Petya' computer virus inside an electronics store in Kiev, Ukraine, on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. | (Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg)

The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed charges against two Iranian hackers that the department believes used ransomware to attack more than 200 victims, including U.S. hospitals and government agencies.

The defendants, Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri, 27, are not in custody and may still be in Iran.

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