Midlothian Police Starts Using Bitcoin, In a Way
A suburban Chicago Police Department recently paid a $500 worth Bitcoin ransom to retrieve their malware-hit data from an unidentified hacker. Somewhere in January, Midlothian police reported to have been attacked by cryptoware - a trojan that encrypts data of the target's computer and seeks ransom for its retrieval from online criminals. Reportedly, the hacker in this case had encrypted specific confidential files on the police's computer, though he never got to access them. According to Calvin Harder Jr., a local IT expert at Midlothian, someone from the police department accidentally....
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Twelve of the U.K.’s 43 police forces have seized cryptocurrency worth approximately £322 million ($435 million) in criminal investigations in the last five years, New Scientist reported Thursday, citing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests it submitted.
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The U.K.’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced Friday that about $5.4 million of the funds seized from an international cryptocurrency scam rumbled by its police officers in July last year have been returned to rightful owners. The announcement details:
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