Amazing New - Use Bitcon to extort Trump advisor

in #news7 years ago

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To see that the cryptocurrency are fashionable, I've called my attention an article I just read.

Trump's adviser in question, he said at the congress, that just before the elections last year, someone tried to extort him for 52 Bitcoins.

The alleged extortion happened in late October of last year when advisor Jared Kushner received an email from someone using the nickname "Guccifer400" in reference to the Romanian hacker who infiltrated several accounts of several US officials.

The alleged hacker threatened to publish Trump's accounts unless Jared Kushner paid him 52 Bitcoins which at that time were worth approximately $ 37,000.

The threat came to nothing because the hacker did not contact him again.

My reflection is, how can you prevent cryptocurrency from being used by
Cyber criminals?

This last year I read a lot about the criptomonedas ... in everything that I have read it is mentioned that they are very used by the criminals since they leave no trace.

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