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Canadian extradited to US over alleged hacking of schools in at least four states

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A Canadian man has been sent to the United States to face charges that he hacked schools in at least four American states. The US says the hackers secretly used school computers to mine cryptocurrency, a task that uses other people's computing power to earn digital money.

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