Authorities release ransom letter, cyber threats
At least they were thoughtful enough to offer a payment plan:
&quot;Option one is a straight forward, no frills, payment plan - We are proposing that you have one
calendar year to satisfy this arrangement between us. This proposal breaks down as follows:
You, our client, accord and satisfy a complete transfer of 150.000 USD of Bitcoins (BTC) over a
twelve calendar month period of time with your first transfer to be a twenty percent down-
payment transfer of 30.000 USD of BTC to be made by the date and time of 2017-10-20 23:59
UTC. Follow-up transfers of 10.000 USD of BTC will be made by the end of each calendar
month for the next twelve months, in order to accord and satisfy this proposed option.&quot;<p>News article:
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