Hackers are Demanding Bitcoins (More Info Here Than You Think)
If you are from UK or you are into BTC you surely heard of hackers who attacked NHS (hospitals mostly) in Uk with ransomware that encrypts HDDs and demands Bitcoin.
Ransomware called cryptolocker (and variations) that encrypts your whole HDD and demands BTC. Actually when you pay BTC - they give you key to unlock all lost data. Just this time this people attacked hospitals.. No comment on this.
Within a week they infected 200k machines but after tracking their BTC adresses - they made "only" 50k USD for this.
The news were top1 in UK and even CNBC International got on them
The virus/attack is called WannaCry and here are the tree wallets (if you wanna google or so).
https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8isjr6SMwBitcoin
https://blockchain.info/address/13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6NgaEb94Bitcoin
https://blockchain.info/address/115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNXj6LrLnBitcoin
Current balances
Hackers stole new Movie and Want BTC to NOT Release It
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, newest movie will be released if Disney doesnt pay will be released.
Guess what this 2 news did to BTC?
Google searches for Bitcoin are going into ATH again.
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These people are trash.
You do not know their motivations, so perhaps it is best not to pass judgement on them a this point.
Attacking hospitals is pretty scummy.
...Hmmm. Don't get any ideas fellow Steemians.
This attack was a false flag used to criminalize Bitcoin. The ransomware was created by the NSA in the first place.
Remember that all governments work for the central banks and the central banks know that a lot of people on this planet realize that we are being held hostage by the central banks.
Bitcoin is something that is a direct threat to the central banks survival and they will stop at nothing to try and destroy it.
Spot on!!,
Enough said.
I said they will stop at nothing to try and destroy it, didn't say they would succeed. Even though we think that the crypto currency market cap is big, it aint. They have bigger things to worry about right now like keeping the world stock and bond markets afloat long enough to convince the world that it was a terrorist attack on our computers that caused they system to collapse....
i absolutely agree, so given the nature of things i have been considering either shorting bitcoin or rolling out of the vxx and dumping all of it into ehteruem or tezos whch opens on the 22nd my thinking is that whatever action is taken will start at bitcoin and them work its way down so there is still quite a bit of money on the table, if the timing is correct.
This massive hacking will give governments an excuse to shut down Bitcoin or regulate it into uselessness.
Shut down bitcoin?
Governments don't even know what hit them yet...
Gov'ts could shut down bitcoin in an instant by shorting
i don't think this will happen, this was not a bitcoin problem this is NSA and bitoin just happen to be the crypto used, if the hackers where smart and had 0 chance to find out they would have used DASH or XMR that is alot harder to track.
Just curious. Were hospital explicitly targeted or just "collateral damage"?
History in the making school kids in the future will be learning about this in the classroom.
It's interesting times we live in! Prepare and plan and with a lot of hope and some luck we will make it through this tough time! DR
At least the hackers are informed to what is valuable. Really can't think of anything else positive about those clowns!
Use case for bitcoin.
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It was probably charlie shrem. Dude, thanks for promoting bitcoin at all costs, but hospitals, really?
Thats virtual hostage, how do you know what special needs one needs without data, its a barrel of a gun pointed to their heads without measurement of dosage they are vulnerable. Virtual realm hostage reality realm massacre!