Our school: breaking into the Bank hackers demand ransom in bitcoin
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Criminals have access to personal data of thousands of customers of two canadian banks, according to . Hackers threaten to publish the confidential information unless they receive a ransom equivalent to one million dollars. A special requirement is that a ransom must be paid in the cryptocurrency Ripple.
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The Victims of hackers were 90 000 customers banks Bank of Montreal and Simplii Financial. Fraudsters have control of names, passwords, secret questions, and social security numbers of the visitors to the banks. The first reports of hacking appeared last week, then the attackers put forward their demands in the anonymous letter.
We warned BMO and Simplii that publish data of their customers if they refuse to cooperate. Payment must be made before midnight on may 28, otherwise the personal information of 90,000 people will be freely available on hacker forums.
Hackers also explained the principle of breaking the security of banks. They used a special algorithm that generated the circulation of fake users to restore lost password to an online account.
Deadline for payment of the redemption have already passed, but the Internet is confidential information and has not appeared. The management of the banks, it seems, is also not going to go on about the criminals. Email address XRP wallet was not credited for a million dollars.
Do Not forget that the cryptocurrency can be used for other purposes. On the eve of Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher $ 4 million in XRP charitable Fund for saving the wildlife. He said this in a morning show of the owner of the Fund Ellen DeGeneres.
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