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How many Bitcoins were actually paid to the WannaCry authors so far?
- DerWOK 9y agoSeems only three BTC addresses are used for payments by WannaCry: * https://blockchain.info/address/13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6NgaEb94 https://blockchain.info/address/13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6N... * https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8isjr6SMw https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8is... * https://blockchain.info/address/115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNXj6LrLn https://blockchain.info/address/115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNX... Roughly 47 BTC (~100,000 $) were paid by a total of ~310 users. There have been 300,000 infected PCs reported [1]. If we asume that a payment is done per machine (at least thats what the WannaCry 'rules' demand), than only 0,1% of infected users pay. Seems, crime does not pay (at least it does not pay as much as expected) ;-) [1] www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/13/nhs-cyber-attack-everything-need-know-biggest-ransomware-offensive/