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After Demanding $3 Million Ransom, Hacker Dumps Massive Customer Financial Data (dailydot.com)

Posted by timothy on from the an-honest-thief dept.

Patrick O'Neill writes: Just over week after a hacker breached a United Arab Emirates Bank, demanding a $3 million ransom to stop tweeting customers' information, he appears to have dumped tens of thousands of customer files online. The actual data appears to be real. And it's vast. One database analyzed by the Daily Dot includes the sensitive information of around 40,000 customers, including their full names, credit card numbers, and birthdays. One account contained 4,7174,962.38 dirham, or $12,844,589.77. Those accounts' total earnings add up to $110,736,002. One bank executive confirmed the hack to Farooqui, adding that, "This is blackmail."

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  1. The problem with paying blackmail by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only a bankster is stupid enough not to spend a ratio of 3:111 to protect their business.

    The problem with paying blackmail is that it doesn't ever stop.

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    1. Re:The problem with paying blackmail by TWX · · Score: 3, Informative

      It does if one takes the opportunity to pay the blackmailer as a means to expose them, to then murder them in a way that leaves evidence of a very prolonged and excruciating death.

      I suspect that one of the reasons that people don't engage in this kind of behavior more often is that it's very, very difficult to collect ransom without subjecting one's self to grievous risk. Wealthy people also have the means to afford to get retribution against someone else if they choose to do so.

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  2. Income inequality by Theaetetus · · Score: 4, Informative
    Complete aside, but...

    One database analyzed by the Daily Dot includes the sensitive information of around 40,000 customers, including their full names, credit card numbers, and birthdays. One account contained 4,7174,962.38 dirham, or $12,844,589.77. Those accounts' total earnings add up to $110,736,002.

    $110.7 million over 40,000 accounts is an average of $2,767.5 per account. That one guy with $12 million has over 4600 times the average.

  3. http://bckalev.ee/invest/ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    The data is still there. http://bckalev.ee/invest/
    Nice bandwidth too.