Gamdom Hit With $15M Bitcoin Ransom Demand After Major Crypto Hack
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Crypto casino Gamdom is facing a $15 million Bitcoin ransom demand following claims by the extortion group Whitearmor t hat it breached the platform’s infrastructure and obtained records belonging to over 15.4 million users. The ransom was made public on Monday, October 26, less than two weeks after the company suffered an exploit on its hot wallets on October 13. According to market reports, the cybercriminal organization Whitearmo r claims to possess a database containing 15,420,003 customer accounts and is requesting the ransom payment in cryptocurrency to prevent the disclosure of the records. Management at the gambling firm disputes the volume reported by the attackers, maintaining an ongoing technical discrepancy regarding the scope of the incident.
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