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Engineer Gets 32 Months for Bitcoin Extortion Plot Against His Own Employer

Published by Decrypt · United States 1 h ago

Daniel Rhyne locked his company's IT administrators out of its network and demanded 20 BTC, then worth $750,000, to stop the shutdowns.

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