Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Hacker Extorts Bitcoin Ransom From Illinois Police Department

Someone should nominate this jackass for a Darwin award. Somehow I don't think extorting a PD is going to end well for him.

From The Huffington Post:

Hacker Extorts Bitcoin Ransom From Illinois Police Department

A suburban Chicago police department paid a hacker a $500 ransom to restore access to data on a police computer that the hacker had disabled through the use of an increasingly popular type of virus.

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