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A self-confessed hacker who sought a million-dollar Bitcoin payment in exchange for then-US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax records has been found guilty of extortion and fraud. In August 2012 Michael Mancil Brown, 37, sent a letter to one of Romney's accountants, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), claiming to have hacked …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    If only he'd used better DevSecOps, maybe he wouldn't have been caught.

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  2. Herby

    Now if they could...

    Go after other "ransom" people. There are all sorts of them out there, and they ALL need to get the same treatment.

    I dream on (*SIGH*).

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    well

    Dr Evil made one miscalculation, he attacked someone rich and powerful. If he had just infected a few thousand pleb's machines with ransomware, he would be laughing. Hello children, can you spell utilitarianism?

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  4. kain preacher

    Know your target.

    1.) He is rich gets special treatment

    2.) He was running for the presidency of the us. That means he gets protection by the secret service .

    So sure attack a rich guy that has 24/74 protection paid by the US gov .

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