Tax,
Banking
Dec. 9, 2016
Hackers hold DA data hostage for a bitcoin ransom
Pennsylvania's Allegheny County District Attorney's Office apparently paid a bitcoin ransom to protect the privacy of its own digital information.
Dashiell C. Shapiro
Counsel
Shartsis Friese LLP
litigation, tax
Email: dshapiro@sflaw.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Dashiell is a former U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division honors attorney.
In the midst of the Internal Revenue Service's legal battle to uncover the identities of bitcoin users, federal prosecutors have revealed that one district attorney's office had a battle for its own private information, also involving bitcoin. Pennsylvania's Allegheny County District Attorney's Office apparently paid a bitcoin ransom to protect the privacy of its own digital information. The amount of the ransom was relatively small, only $1,400 in good old dollars. But it's still remarkab...
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