On March 24, seven Iranian hackers were indicted on computer hacking charges relating to distributed denial of service ("DDoS") attacks directed at 46 U.S. financial sector businesses from 2011 through 2013. The hacks caused tens of millions of dollars in remediation damages and left hundreds of thousands of Americans without access to their online banking accounts.

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