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Re: New pirates of the carribean hackers asking for BTC
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NeuroticFish
on 16/05/2017, 13:37:46 UTC

There's one more thread on this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1920215.0
You came second Smiley

I doubt they will pay. Why pay? Its going to get pirated anyways. If these guys were real pirates they would have released it already.

"but said Disney had refused to pay and was working with federal investigators."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/16/pirates-of-the-caribbean-disney-hackers-ransom-new-film-online

Also "the extortionists threatened to release five minutes of the film and then 20-minute chunks unless a sizeable ransom was paid"