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Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison
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A former core infrastructure engineer has been sentenced to prison for carrying out a cyber extortion plot against their former employer, an industrial firm. The engineer deleted admin accounts and reset hundreds of passwords, then demanded a ransom in exchange for sparing the company's servers. The ransom demand was for a specific amount of bitcoin. The engineer's actions were intended to extort money from the company. The plot ultimately resulted in the engineer's imprisonment.
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