An organization representing indigenous tribes in Canada recently paid a ransom in bitcoin worth thousands of dollars in order to regain access to computer files that had been encrypted by a hacker.
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), over C$20,000 worth of bitcoin was paid out by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) to an anonymous hacker who had breached the organization’s computer systems. FSIN, which represents 74 First Nations in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, was reportedly first contacted five months ago when the hacker emailed a staff member demanding to be paid bitcoin worth over C$100,000 in order to allow access to encrypted files.
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