Criminals prefer virtual currencies

Belgian-based Buy Way Personal Finance on 14 May 2013 told that their website it is attacked on a daily basis. During largest threat in January 2013, a cyber criminal with the moniker Rex Mundi nabbed the personal details of over 500 potential customers, and threatened to dump it all onto the net unless the company forked out €20,000 in a digital currency.

Criminals are more often using bitcoins and other unregulated digital currencies as a payment method of choice when blackmailing companies following a data breach.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background Information: Bitcoin: Virtual currency gets boost from eurozone troubles http://www.europeansources.info/record/bitcoin-virtual-currency-gets-boost-from-eurozone-troubles/

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