Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison

| October 10th, 2026

By Kevin Townsend

The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers.

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