Welcome to the FUTURE: US cops pay Bitcoin ransom to end office hostage drama

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• Subject: Welcome to the FUTURE: US cops pay Bitcoin ransom to end office hostage drama
• From: [email protected] (Georgi Guninski)
• Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:18:53 +0300
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:35:20PM +0200, L0R3NZ 5Z4B0 wrote:
> Which shows the "sophistication" (or lack of) of this fraud operation and makes me wonder why the penmens at TheReg would even publish this tidbit: $300 ransom targeting a police department?
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> â?? BizDevCon
>

Assuming it is true, the news is the cops assume the decrypted files
are the original.

Examples:

s/President of USA/grey dude in charge/

or just changing few IDs.

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