{"id":727001,"date":"2026-06-26T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727001\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:09:08","slug":"iranian-national-sought-by-us-on-hacking-charges-arrested-in-montenegro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727001\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian national sought by US on hacking charges arrested in Montenegro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"H5ACRSJF7VFHTCWX3K7DKSPJSI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">PODGORICA, Montenegro \u2014 An <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iranian<\/a> national who is wanted by the United States for mass hacking attacks that caused damage of $3.4 billion was arrested in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/montenegro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montenegro,<\/a> police in the Balkan country said late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"C7HAW3OD35AGHCQOYTS6ODYRKQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The 39-year-old man, who holds both the Iranian and Turkish citizenship, is wanted by a court in New York on multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit computer \u2060fraud, hacking, and identity \u2060theft, a statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PODGORICA, Montenegro \u2014 An Iranian national who is wanted by the United States for mass hacking attacks that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[232237,23,5108,2302,3071,4001,312743,6884,793,4002,3073,4381,3,22148,795,21,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":["post-727001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-america","tag-citizenship","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-cybercrime","tag-eu-montenegro-us-iran","tag-fraud","tag-general-news","tag-hacking","tag-indictments","tag-law-enforcement","tag-news","tag-theft","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}