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Banking Industry Gets Blackmailed For Bitcoin

September 10, 2015
Ashley Madison Hack Sparks Lawsuit
News // August 24, 2015

The Ashley Madison data breach that leaked the personal information of 37 million people has sparked a class-action lawsuit. Two law firms in Canada, Charney Lawyers and Sutts and Strosberg LLP, announced late last week (Aug. 20) that they have filed a lawsuit on behalf of any...

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Banking Industry Gets Blackmailed For Bitcoin

September 10, 2015
The concept of bitcoin ransom —a criminal trend described as the “modern day version of a mob shakedown” — is hardly new, but an elusive cybercriminal group is on an extortion spree and raking in bitcoin payments along the way. The bitcoin extortionist group DD4BC, which stands for DDoS for Bitcoin, uses the threat of distributed denial […]

Ashley Madison Hack Sparks Lawsuit

August 24, 2015
The Ashley Madison data breach that leaked the personal information of 37 million people has sparked a class-action lawsuit. Two law firms in Canada, Charney Lawyers and Sutts and Strosberg LLP, announced...