Criminals are using bitcoins and other unregulated digital currencies as a payment method of choice when blackmailing companies following a data breach.
Belgian-based Buy Way Personal Finance told this website on Tuesday (14 May) that it is attacked on a daily basis.
But its largest threat came in January when a cyber criminal with the moniker Rex Mundi nabbed the personal details of over 500 potential customers and threatened to dump it all onto the net unless the company forked...
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