Telecom Argentina Hacked for Ransomware of US 7.5 MM En Monero

[Rich One]

Telecom Argentina Hacked 7.5 MM US ransomware requested payable in Monero Bitcoins?

Hackean Telecom de Argentina y piden $7,5 millones en Monero de rescate

El 18 de julio se filtró información que evidenciaría un ciberataque a la mayor empresa de telecomunicaciones de Argentina Telecom. Como proceso de “rescate”, los atacantes orquestaron un cuidadoso plan que incluiría un pago de más de 7 millones de dólares en la criptomoneda Monero para...

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[Ceviche]

Telecom Argentina Hacked 7.5 MM US ransomware requested payable in Monero Bitcoins?

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Monero is not a bitcoin. Its the most private coin on the planet..almost impossible to track it down online, while bitcoin is exactly the opposite and is extremely easy to track down.

 

[Rich One]

Monero is not a bitcoin. Its the most private coin on the planet..almost impossible to track it down online, while bitcoin is exactly the opposite and is extremely easy to track down.

For us non initiated

In 2014 Bitcointalk forum user known as thankful_for_today forked the codebase of Bytecoin into the name BitMonero, which is a compound of Bit (as in Bitcoin) and Monero (literally meaning "coin" in Esperanto).[3] The release of BitMonero was very poorly received by the community that initially backed it. Plans to fix and improve Bytecoin with changes to block time, tail emission and block reward had all been ignored, and thankful_for_today simply disappeared from the development scene. A group of users led by Johnny Mnemonic decided that the community should take over the project, and five days later they did while also changing the name to Monero.

 

[camel]

Grin is the most private coin (the MimbleWimble protocol), but Monero is older and more popular.

 

[Iznogud]

«Johnny Mnemonic» Great W.Gibson short story-screenplay / Keanu movie reference. LOL.

It's so easy to catch an encrypting troyan these days while browsing that I hardly believe this is not what really happened.

Learned the hard way a few days ago. A 5 minutes scare beforeit was a thing of the past and lesson learned. ROTFLMAO.

Iz