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First time I saw one of these, I started laughing. I don't have a webcam. It's hard to believe but people have actually paid the ransom. I seem to remember a
by jerzyt 7y ago
First time I saw one of these, I started laughing. I don't have a webcam.
It's hard to believe but people have actually paid the ransom. I seem to remember a post on HN matched some Bitcoin transactions by time and amount.
- iamben 7y agoI don't think it's that hard to believe. I had a very smart lawyer friend call me the other day to ask for help regarding one of these. He said something like "I probably would have disregarded it, but they knew my password. I'd never pay, but it's very disconcerting." I'm guessing there are many people who've been doing stuff online they'd worry about their friends knowing, who would pay. Fwiw,I checked haveibeenpwned with him, and we found where they would have got the password from. My spam filter had caught lots of emails with identical wording, so it was reassuring for him to see the same emails, understand how it happened, and learn some password management stuff.