£100,000 of bitcoin withdrawn from online accounts after Wannacry cyber attack

More than £100,000 of digital currency bitcoin paid to hackers by victims of the WannaCry ransomware attack has been withdrawn from their online wallets.

£100,000 of bitcoin withdrawn from online accounts after Wannacry cyber attack

More than £100,000 of digital currency bitcoin paid to hackers by victims of the WannaCry ransomware attack has been withdrawn from their online wallets.

The cyber attack struck the NHS in May, as well as hundreds of other businesses worldwide, causing days of disruption by locking users out of their files and demanding bitcoin payments in order to release them.

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