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Bitcoin Crime: Hackers Demand Bitcoin Ransom for Data Stolen from Johannesburg City Administration Website

Fri, 10/25/2019 - 13:09
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Yuri Molchan
The ‘Shadow Kill Hackers’ group of IT criminals hacks the website of the City of Johannesburg, demanding a ransom in Bitcoin and leaving the city without e-services
 Bitcoin Crime: Hackers Demand Bitcoin Ransom for Data Stolen from Johannesburg City Administration Website
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As reported by the eNCA news agency, a group of cyber criminals, referring to themselves as ‘Shadow Kill Hackers’, has attacked the City of Johannesburg administration website. Now they threatened to upload the stolen data on the Internet unless the authorities pay them a ransom of 4.0 BTC by October 28.

The news was broken on the eNCA Twitter page. Details were reported by Business Day.

Hackers shutting down e-services of an entire city

The attack occurred on the early hours on Thursday, October 25. The cyber criminals disabled the city’s website and all of the city's online services. For resuming those, the ‘Shadow Kill Hackers’ demand a ransom in Bitcoin.

When the incident took place, several other banks also complained of issues with the Internet connection.

The local security experts and the police are currently investigating the case.

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Yuri is a crypto journalist interested in technology and technical innovations. He has been in crypto since 2017. Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have a potential to transform the world in the future in many of its aspects. ‘Hodls’ major cryptocurrencies and has written for multiple crypto media outlets. 

His articles have been quoted by such crypto influencers as Tyler Winklevoss, John McAfee, CZ Binance, Max Keiser, etc.

Currently Yuri is a news writer at U.Today and can be contacted at yuri.molchan@u.today.