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Two of the IT crime suspects heard Wednesday in Timisoara, western Romania, were placed under preventive arrest late Wednesday for allegedly having cloned websites of banks causing damages of EUR350,000.

The number of people taken in for hearings Wednesday on suspicions of IT crimes increased to 22, local police said.

Romanian prosecutors are searching Wednesday morning homes of people suspected of having hacked into servers of universities in the United States, NASA and illegally cloned websites of banks in the European Union to get credit card information.

The magistrates within the Romanian Pitesti Court of Appeal decided, Monday, to extend by another 29 days the arrest warrants issued for the 20 hackers arrested in the "Malware" case in Ramnicu Valcea.