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Cryptocurrency Ecosystem => Bitcoin Forum => Bitcoin News & Updates => Topic started by: fitload on July 13, 2018, 07:16:37 PM
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It seems the cryptocurrency community is under threat of a new form of crypto blackmail tactic, always there is something or someone lurking in the depths ready to steal your hard hodl’d crypto.
Cornell University computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer has shared an email that seems to take advantage of filtered passwords to swindle Bitcoin out of unsuspecting victims, demanding they pay a ransom.
Taking all precautions, if you receive such an email it would be wise to ignore it and don’t respond to it regardless of recognizing the password shown it can’t be stressed enough that by simply receiving it.
Though it’s quite not clear how many users have been affected so far a review revealed that the Bitcoin address included in the blackmail email appears to have received over..
Read More: https://news.bitzamp.com/blackmailers-threatens-to-leak-users-masturbation-vids-demands-bitcoin-ransom/ (https://news.bitzamp.com/blackmailers-threatens-to-leak-users-masturbation-vids-demands-bitcoin-ransom/)