Brazilian Hacker Faces Charges for $3.2M Bitcoin Extortion After Compromising 300,000 Accounts
A Brazilian man, Junior Barros De Oliveira, has been charged in the U.S. for attempting to extort a company after hacking its network in March 2020. He accessed confidential data belonging to around 300,000 customers and demanded a ransom of 300 bitcoin, valued at about $3.2 million at the time, to refrain from selling the ...
