EU shoots down petition for digital currency crime victim fund
A London-based lawyer petitioned for a fund that would compensate victims of digital currency fraud, theft and extortion in Europe.
A London-based lawyer petitioned for a fund that would compensate victims of digital currency fraud, theft and extortion in Europe.
A court in the U.K. ordered Bitfinex to seize the tokens following an extortion scam which saw the victim paying $950,000 in BTC.
A hacker group going by the name TheDarkOverlord recently announced that it had “damning evidence” of the terrorist activity that rocked the U.S. on September 11, 2007.
Online travel company CheapAir has become the latest company to fall victim to a BTC extortion scam, after threats of a campaign of disruption and defamation at the hands of cyber criminals.