WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department said on Tuesday that a Chinese state-sponsored contract hacker was arrested last week in Italy at the request of the United States government.
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Xu Zewei, 33, from China was arrested on July 3, the Justice Department said, adding a nine-count indictment was unsealed on Tuesday in the Southern District of Texas alleging the involvement of that individual and a co-defendant in computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021.
