Daniel Rhyne, a former core infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey industrial company, was sentenced on September 28 to 32 months in prison for sabotaging his employer’s computer network and demanding a 20 Bitcoin ransom, worth approximately $750,000 at the time. On November 25, 2023, he sent an email threatening to shut down 40 servers per day for 10 days unless the ransom was paid by December 2. The FBI traced the attack to a hidden virtual machine created on November 9, 2023, accessed from his company laptop, with the password “TheFr0zenCrew!” that led to his identification.
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