In April, an investigation by ICIJ and cybersecurity analysts at Toronto University’s Citizen Lab, which investigates digital threats against civil society, identified similar tactics used in a campaign targeting Uyghur, Tibetan, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong diaspora activists, as well as journalists from ICIJ and elsewhere who report on these groups.
The report revealed that suspicious emails — sent by people posing as ICIJ reporters or whistleblowers — were part of a sophisticated strategy aimed at stealing private information of interest to the Chinese government.
Taipei City Investigation Office issued deferred prosecution orders against Li and Chen for violating the personal data protection act and other crimes, according to a statement. Read more here.
SCAM VICTIMS SNUBBED
As law enforcement officials around the country grapple with a flood of victims falling prey to scammers using cryptocurrency, authorities in two states allege that the crypto giant Circle has snubbed court orders directing the firm to recover stolen funds.
MERCK PRESSED ON PRICING
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, sent a letter pressing pharmaceutical giant Merck over its patenting and pricing practices for the blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda, the subject of ICIJ’s recent Cancer Calculus investigation.
CARUANA GALIZIA TRIAL BEGINS
Yorgen Fenech appeared in court nearly a decade after allegedly orchestrating the car-bomb killing of one of Malta’s most prominent investigative journalists, Daphne Caruana Galizia. She wrote extensively on corruption in Maltese politics and business and had been working on stories that built on revelations from the Panama Papers.
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Carmen Molina Acosta
ICIJ's digital editor
P.S. You may have noticed something different in this week's newsletter. I've taken over as digital editor, and I'm excited to keep bringing you the newsletter in my new role. Congrats to my colleague, Jo, who will be working more closely on our investigations as an editor! |
