Indian company gets email ransom demand ‘Pay 500 CR in bitcoins or suffer bio-terror'

Synopsis

In May 2017, Wipro, a prominent Indian IT company, received an extortion email threatening a biological attack on its offices in Bengaluru. The anonymous sender demanded ₹500 crore (approximately $80 million) in Bitcoin, threatening to deploy the high...

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  • Wipro Limited

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