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Published in TZ Latest News 22 March, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff

City Held Hostage — Via Bitcoin Ransomware

When it comes to bitcoin, the stories about ransomware seem to be nothing out of the ordinary for the mainstream news cycle.

Ironically, this most recent case comes less than a year after a New Jersey police officer from the same city was nabbed for selling bitcoin mining equipment. But this time, the case is a bit more serious as it has to do with hackers using bitcoin ransomware to lock out local government employees from their own computers.

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