U.S. Says Hackers Are Stealing Research Data On COVID-19

Update: 2020-05-14 06:40 GMT
The novel coronavirus originated from the Wuhan Province of China has spread to around 200 nations which left around 44 lakh people infected with the virus globally and claimed more than 2.95 lakh deaths.

Following this many nations and researchers across the globe are trying every possible way to come up with a potential vaccine that can cure the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the wake of this, the United States authorities said that hackers from China and Iran have been trying the hack several Universities, Pharmaceutical companies, and other firms that work on health care to steal the key data on the researchers conducted on the COVID-19 vaccine.

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained that these hackers are trying to steal the data on the treatments and vaccines for the pandemic which is cited as the intellectual property.

The authorities warned these nations and the hackers to not indulge in such acts and expressed their shock on why are these people trying to create obstacles in this process.

Earlier, the United States President Donald Trump accused the Dragon country China for the spread of the virus and accused the country of hiding the details of the origin of the virus which can give valuable information for the researchers working on the vaccine for the pandemic.
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