Talk about having a bad day… First you get hit with ransomware, demanding you send a Bitcoin payment to anonymous hackers Then you realise that you don’t have a secure backup of your files, so you’ll have to pay up to have any hope of getting your files back. And finally, after you have worked out how to buy yourself some Bitcoins online, and as you are attempting to pay the hackers their ransom… the payment gets diverted to someone else entirely.

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