You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: San Francisco Subway Is Free To Use After Ransomware Attack, Hackers Sought BitcoinsView the full contextithinkican (48)in #crypto • 8 years ago What does that mean?
The hackers are seeking an even 100 Bitcoins to unlock these public service systems, which currently equates to around $73,000.
How are they seeking it?
Hackers infiltrating private networks for Bitcoins is not a new or recent occurrence
yeah but what does that mean to infiltrate a private network? And what are they doing by infiltrating? Start new convo at top reply: https://steemit.com/crypto/@ithinkican/re-sergey44-san-francisco-subway-is-free-to-use-after-ransomware-attack-hackers-sought-bitcoins-20161128t172921377z
Bitcoin works on a public Blockchain, so the payment, if made, could be tracked to a wallet. However, a mixing or laundering device for Bitcoin could be used to throw authorities off the trail.
Replying to: https://steemit.com/crypto/@sergey44/san-francisco-subway-is-free-to-use-after-ransomware-attack-hackers-sought-bitcoins#@sergey44/re-ithinkican-re-sergey44-re-ithinkican-re-sergey44-re-ithinkican-re-sergey44-san-francisco-subway-is-free-to-use-after-ransomware-attack-hackers-sought-bitcoins-20161128t181859724z
Yeah but why would someone pay them? what are they threatening to do?