Hackers have given Harvard, Stanford, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and nearly 9,000 other schools until May 12 to negotiate or face the public release of stolen student data, in what cybersecurity firms are calling the largest education-sector cyberattack on record.

Taiwan’s main opposition leader said cross-strait peace can be maintained as long as Taipei did not move towards “de jure independence”, during her trip in the United States. Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT), attended a closed-door seminar at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government on Thursday, according to a KMT statement on Friday.