US officials say Hafnium victimised more than 12,700 US entities.

The State Department now offers up to $10 million for information on accused hacker Zhang Yu.

Prosecutors allege Zhang and Xu Zewei hacked for China’s Ministry of State Security from February 2020 to June 2021.

Zhang remains at large, while Xu, arrested in Milan in 2025, was extradited to the US in April.

How each outlet framed it
The Record leans critical
emphasizes COVID-19 research theft from US universities and immunologists; co-conspirator already extradited from Italy

Sources: The Record