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A Slate Of Austrian Companies Received Emails Threatening Bombings If The Senders Were Not Paid Bitcoin

Emily Mason

Summary: On Tuesday morning various Austrian companies received emails demanding they pay $20,000 in Bitcoin within the next 80 hours or risk a bomb explosion, according to local media outlets. Austria's Federal Criminal Police deployed vehicles to Vienna and Tyrol but did not find evidence of planted explosives. In a statement they noted that Bitcoin bomb ...

On Tuesday morning various Austrian companies received emails demanding they pay $20,000 in Bitcoin within the next 80 hours or risk a bomb explosion, according to local media outlets.

Austria's Federal Criminal Police deployed vehicles to Vienna and Tyrol but did not find evidence of planted explosives. In a statement they noted that Bitcoin bomb threats are a well known phenomenon. 

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