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Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin extortionists are wiping GitHub repositories – unless you pay up

Monday, May 6, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin extortionists are wiping GitHub repositories – unless you pay up

Good morning. It’s Monday, so you know what that means. It’s time for Moonday Mornings, our wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. 1.Bitcoin extortionists have been wiping GitHub repositories and holding the data to ransom, Bleeping Computer reports. All that remains in the repositories is a ransom note demanding 0.1BTC ($560) which hackers claim will ensure the safe return of code. 2. A US district court has ordered Craig Wright to provide a list of his public Bitcoin address to prove he didn’t steal 1.1 million BTC ($6.1 mllion) from David Kleiman over their years long partnership,…

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