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Re:Equifax hackers demand $2.6m ransom by trendia on Friday September 08, 2017 @07:53PM (#15204807)
Refuse to pay the ransom? The credit card numbers are still worth a lot. You're only reducing their payoffs a little bit.

If anything, posting the ransom increases the chances that the FBI can track them (since it's hosted on a Tor server)

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Re:Equifax hackers demand $2.6m ransom by fapjacks on Saturday September 09, 2017 @10:40AM (#15207274)
The FBI's Tor exploit works on visitors to a Tor hidden service, but doesn't work to identify operators of a Tor hidden service. However it is very easy to misconfigure a Tor hidden service and have it leak identifying information.
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