Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
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Summary
Senior US academic Xiaofeng Wang, who has spent 20 years publishing papers on cryptography and cybersecurity, has had his email and work page scrubbed and had his homes raided by the FBI, with neither he nor his wife being heard from since.
Wang’s profile and email account with Indiana University, where he works as a tenured professor, were removed, as was his wife Nianli Ma’s page, who was listed as a lead systems analyst and programmer at the university’s Library Technologies division.
The pair’s homes in Bloomington and Carmel were raided by the FBI and boxes were taken away, with the FBI refusing to comment on the raids.
It is not known why Wang and his wife have been subjected to these actions, and efforts to contact them have so far been unsuccessful.
Wang’s colleagues have expressed shock and confusion at the situation.
