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

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. – BizDevCon

On 14 Apr 2015, at 16:53, Georgi Guninski wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/13/us_police_ransomware/ Welcome to the FUTURE: US cops pay Bitcoin ransom to end office hostage drama

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After trying to restore the encrypted files for a couple of days, the police in Maine decided to pay the $300 ransom in Bitcoins.