[2015-04-14] BS: Bitcoins used to buy over 31,000 web pages of child sex images

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Bitcoins used to buy over 31,000 web pages of child sex images

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/bitcoins-used-to-buy-over-31-000-web-pages-of-child-sex-images-115041400346_1.html

Over 31,000 web pages carrying images of child sexual abuse have been found by a British watchdog -- but what is worse, it has also discovered that the offenders have been using bitcoins to buy the abuse images, according to media reports.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said the digital currency was accepted as a form of payment by a number of the "most prolific commercial" child abuse websites for the first time last year, Sky News reported on Tuesday.