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Shenzhen "Fake Hacker" Sentenced to 3 Years and 3 Months for Attempted Extortion of 0.88 Bitcoin and 90,000 USDT from Enterprise

Source: newspaper.jcrb.com Event types: Security/Hacker Regulation/Compliance
According to reports from the Procuratorial Daily, an employee of a Shenzhen enterprise, under pressure from over 400,000 yuan in online loans, stole the company's core R&D data and disguised himself as an overseas hacker to demand a ransom of 0.88 Bitcoin and 90,000 USDT from the enterprise, and was ultimately sentenced to three years and three months for attempted extortion and fined 10,000 yuan.

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