Feb 21, 2015
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Midlothian cops pay ransom to retrieve data from hacker
20 February 2015 | Gregory Pratt | chicagotribune.com
A south suburban police department paid a $500 ransom to an unidentified hacker to regain access to data from a police computer the hacker managed to disable, records show.
Midlothian in January was hit with a form of computer virus called Cryptoware, said Calvin Harden Jr., an IT vendor who works with the village.
The hacker demanded payment through bitcoin, a digital currency often used by individuals engaging in sophisticated or sometimes illegal activities on the Internet.
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