On October 8, the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program offered up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of Zhang Yu, a member of China's Ministry of State Security suspected of hacking into the COVID research systems of multiple U.S. universities and research institutions. His accomplice Xu Zewei was arrested earlier this year and extradited to the United States to stand trial.[United States][Technological Espionage][State Security Department][Jack Spicy Strips][Zhang Yu]