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

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