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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bill Hinton) Three Iranian nationals charged with hacking into US-based computer networks sent ransom demands to the printers of at least some of their victims, according to an indictment unsealed today. The ransom demands allegedly sought payments in exchange for BitLocker decryption keys that the victims could use to regain […]
The detailed medical histories and contact information of possibly tens of thousands of home-care patients in Ontario are allegedly being held for ransom by thieves who recently raided the computer systems of a health-care provider.
IN THE early 1970s, leftist guerrillas in Argentina discovered a lucrative new way to make money: kidnap millionaires. Panicking firms would agree to huge ransoms, more concerned with freeing their executives than driving down the fee. That was not just bad for businesses. It also became a textbook case of how poor negotiating can send […]
You better start praying because AMC has announced Preacher‘s Season 3 premiere date. Season 3 of the dark dramedy will premiere on Sunday, June 24 at 10/9c. In the upcoming season, Jesse Custer returns home to Angelville and enlists help from his friends to move on from his past, as the fate of the world depends […]
Alan Cumming is poised to meet the new Time Lord. The Good Wife vet will guest in a Season 11 episode of Doctor Who, which will feature new leading lady Jodie Whittaker, the actor revealed on the Homo Sapiens podcast. VIDEOSGeorge Clooney to Star in Catch-22 Limited Series Adaptation * Steve Coulter (House of Cards) and […]
(credit: Comcast) A cable company that competes against Comcast says it was forced “to pay a punitive ransom totaling nearly $ 3.5 million” in order to keep airing Comcast-owned TV programming. Wave Broadband, which has about 455,000 customers in Washington, Oregon, and California, filed a complaint against Comcast-owned networks with the Federal Communications Commission in […]
On Tuesday, cryptocurrency expert Pavel Lerner was snatched by an armed gang wearing ski masks near his office in Ukraine. It was a kidnap-for-ransom scheme, but with a high-tech twist: instead of asking for easily traceable paper money, the kidnappers demanded to be paid $ 1 million worth of bitcoins. Turns out NY County District […]
LinkedIn The CEO of a UK-registered cryptocurrency exchange Exmo Finance has reportedly been released from the custody of his kidnappers after a $ 1 million bitcoin ransom payment, according to a report from the Financial Times. Pavel Lerner was reportedly kidnapped while leaving the company’s Kiev offices. Pavel Lerner, the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange […]
A COUPLE of things have been grinding my gears over the last couple of weeks. Firstly, the Sydney Kings’ quixotic approach to building their roster; a breathtaking exercise in exasperating hubris. Basketball teams are like a kebab; they require a balance of unidentified mystery meat and salad. The Kings built their team with plenty of […]
Published time: 25 Sep, 2017 23:14 After hackers targeted one of the largest counties in Alabama with a ransomware attack last week, officials in Montgomery County were forced to pay a ransom of $ 37,000 worth of Bitcoin to unlock nearly 70 terabytes of data. The county was given one week to pay the ransom […]
