Canadian extradited to US seven years after university supercomputer cryptojacking

Ryan James Roach, a 35-year-old from Saskatchewan, Canada, was handed to U.S. authorities on October 28 to face charges that he and another man broke into university networks and used supercomputers to mine cryptocurrency. He appeared in federal court in Rochester, New York, on November 3, pleaded not guilty, and his detention hearing was postponed after he said he was not ready. A Saskatchewan judge cleared his transfer in May; prosecutors allege the conduct ran from June 2016 to December 2019 and damaged at least 10 computers. His co-defendant, 41-year-old Mathiew James Stubbings of Ontario, remains in Canada while extradition proceedings continue.