This picture taken on April 15, 2021 shows police parading two hackers arrested over an international scam that saw the theft of about US$60 million in Covid-19 aid intended for US citizens left jobless by the pandemic, at a press conference in Surabaya. - AFP
SURABAYA, April 16 (AFP): Two Indonesian hackers have been arrested over an international scam in which US$60 million was stolen from a Covid-19 aid programme helping Americans left jobless by the pandemic, authorities said.
Text messages were sent to 20 million Americans directing them to more than a dozen fake US government websites, police in the Southeast Asian nation said late Thursday.
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