Bitcoin Ransom: Here’s How Much the 9/11 Papers Hacker Group Has Raised so Far
Even with the declining price of Bitcoin, the “9/11 papers hacker group” has received a significant sum of the flagship cryptocurrency. At current prices, their address has received more than $42,000. In case you missed it, the hackers claim to have acquired a treasure trove of damning documents. Documents related to the most notable foreign terrorist attack on US soil ever (those of September 11, 2001, for our younger and non-US readers) are only one part of the library.
9/11 Papers Hacker Group is Financially Motivated
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The hackers first requested that insurance companies and others they claim are incriminated in the documents to pay them off. They have stated multiple times that they are out for money. For one thing, they’re not Americans. The 9/11 attacks do not have the same public interest to them as it might to an American group of hackers. For another, their goal is to enrich themselves. That the public will allegedly have a great deal more information about the 9/11 attacks, as a result, is seen as a side-effect.
Failing that, they leaned on the public to provide upwards of $1 million in Bitcoin for the full release. Peeling the layers like an onion, each new donation takes the public closer to whatever revelations may be in store.
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