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Engineer Who Sabotaged Employer for Bitcoin Ransom Gets Prison Time

Engineer Who Sabotaged Employer for Bitcoin Ransom Gets Prison Time

A former infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey-based industrial company has been sentenced to 32 months in federal prison after admitting that he sabotaged his employer’s computer systems—and demanded roughly $750,000 in bitcoin to stop the attack. Daniel Rhyne, 59, of Kansas C

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