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SecuritySource: The Daily Hodl ·

Former Engineer Gets 32 Months Prison for Hacking Employer and Demanding Bitcoin (BTC) Ransom

A disgruntled former core infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey industrial company hacked the firm's network in November 2023 by scheduling damaging tasks before demanding 20 Bitcoin worth about $750,000 to halt the sabotage. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 32 months in prison.

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