Alleged Equifax hackers demand $2.6 million Bitcoin ransom — or else...

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By now you know that credit reporting agency Equifax was hacked, and with it, potentially 143 million Americans social security numbers, birth dates, and then some. Unless, according to the criminals who supposedly hacked them, Equifax pays up. 

That's according to an onion site, whose authors insist that if Equifax forks over 600 Bitcoin — approximately $2.66 million at the time of this writing — then they'll delete all the stolen data. Oh, and Equifax better decide quickly, because if the ransom isn't paid, the self-identified hackers say they'll dump all the data on September 15th.   Read more...

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Alleged Equifax hackers demand $2.6 million Bitcoin ransom — or else... Alleged Equifax hackers demand $2.6 million Bitcoin ransom — or else... Reviewed by mimisabreena on Saturday, September 09, 2017 Rating: 5

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