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Topic: [2017-05-15]Hackers who infected 200,000 machines have only made $50,000 worth - page 2. (Read 13194 times)

legendary
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The WannaCry ransomware hackers have received around $50,000 worth of bitcoin so far.
The amount the hackers will demand is expected to double from $300 to $600 on Monday.


http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/15/wannacry-ransomware-hackers-have-only-made-50000-worth-of-bitcoin.html


42.000$ to be exact,at the time of publishing of this article:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bitcoin-accounts-are-under-surveillance-6lb3kglsz
backup your sensitive data like spreadshits,txt files,word documents,photos etc.
a 60$ USB 1 tb hard drive can save you a lot of headache and coins

For coins a hard wallet or a paper wallet is a must. Papers with random numbers are easy to hide around no one would search.

Hard drives can have hardware failures too, so even them are not totally safe, specially when there are physical solutions, like paper wallets
legendary
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The WannaCry ransomware hackers have received around $50,000 worth of bitcoin so far.
The amount the hackers will demand is expected to double from $300 to $600 on Monday.


http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/15/wannacry-ransomware-hackers-have-only-made-50000-worth-of-bitcoin.html


42.000$ to be exact,at the time of publishing of this article:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bitcoin-accounts-are-under-surveillance-6lb3kglsz
backup your sensitive data like spreadshits,txt files,word documents,photos etc.
a 60$ USB 1 tb hard drive can save you a lot of headache and coins
hero member
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They also found the backdoor on the virus so maybe not all of the infected individuals or institution paid any ransom to the hacker. Or maybe they just totally do a full re-install of the infected pc's because they don't want to pay ransom money. I think with this kind of malicious intent, the general public now will be very vigilant and will not click on any link they see on the internet.
legendary
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The WannaCry ransomware hackers have received around $50,000 worth of bitcoin so far.
The amount the hackers will demand is expected to double from $300 to $600 on Monday.


http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/15/wannacry-ransomware-hackers-have-only-made-50000-worth-of-bitcoin.html
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