How to avoid jail for hacking cryptocurrency? An example of life
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Two brothers who went to jail on charges of creating malware, escaped imprisonment. Scammers infitsirovanie more than 1000 computers now will now work for the benefit of society. It is reported .
thePunishment for fraud with cryptocurrencies
Criminals arrested in 2015 in the Netherlands. After investigation of the case revealed that in nearly a year, the brothers managed to infect computers 1259 CoinVault virus. Malware was aimed at extortion. After infecting the victim's PC program has locked her files and instead demanded a ransom in bitcoin.
To think the user is left not so much time — in just 24 hours. If he in this period did not send the specified sum to buy added another hundred dollars. To unlock the files needed to send $ 190, or 0.5 bitcoin at the exchange rate in 2015.
Initially, the brothers were sentenced to one year in prison and 240 hours of community service. The crooks started to cooperate with the investigation and helped authorities to decrypt the locked data. For this they reduced the sentence and left only public works. However, hackers still have to compensate the victims. In total, they received $ 11 000 from 100 victims.
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