{"id":295846,"date":"2026-09-28T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295846\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:32:08","slug":"feds-two-former-penn-state-students-plead-guilty-in-nationwide-hacking-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295846\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds: Two former Penn State students plead guilty in nationwide hacking, fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Prosecutors say a second former Penn State student has admitted to his involvement in a federal investigation into nationwide computer hacking.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials say Kou Zhang entered into a plea agreement last week to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Another former Penn State student, Hanlin Yang, has already pleaded guilty to a similar charge.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the duo was reportedly part of a group that took advantage of senior citizens by gaining access to computer financial information and then telling the victims that they needed to transfer funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Prosecutors say a second former Penn State student has admitted to his involvement in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-295846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}