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The world's biggest currency exchange company was hacked, and the data is reportedly being held hostage for $6 million

The world's largest foreign currency exchange, Travelex, is offline.

Worse: The hackers claim to have 5 GBs of "valuable customer data" that they intend to sell if Travelex doesn't pay them $6 million by January 14,"On Tuesday, December 31st, Travelex detected a software virus which had compromised some of its services,"

 

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$6m in which currency?

Only $6 Million?

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