2015 — Invest Bank: Hacker breached a United Arab Emirates bank,…
Technical writeup
Hacker breached a United Arab Emirates bank, demanding a ransom of $3m in bitcoin to stop tweeting data, mostly about corporate accounts. The hacker dumped files on the website of a basketball team, which he hacked for storage. The bank, Invest Bank, won't pay the ransom.
Root cause
Hacked