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Authorities in Johannesburg are holding firm in their refusal to pay a ransom of 4 Bitcoin to hackers who targeted municipal systems last week.In a statement posted to its official Twitter handle on Oct. 28, the Johannesburg city council confirmed the attack had affected services that included billing, property
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A group named “Shadow Kill Hackers” has targeted the largest city of South Africa, Johannesburg, and demanded a ransom of four Bitcoin(BTC)trade or they will publish the stolen city data on the internet.According to a message displayed on the computer of the city’s employees, the deadline to pay the ransom
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Hackers have compromised the website of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and demanded ransom in Bitcoins (BTC).The city announced the hack on its official Twitter account on Oct. 25. The city wrote that it had “detected a network breach which resulted in unauthorised access to its information systems.”
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Dr. Umar Ardo, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria, rescued his kidnapped daughter by paying a $15,000 (N5.4 million) ransom in Bitcoin to her kidnappers. This is one of the first times that such a case has been reported in which the kidnappers have demanded the
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