The Entire World Just Found Out about Bitcoin!

[kentrolla]

nice hoax. very smart

[Vladimir]

Now imagine they vote with bitcoin instead of sms for x factor and whatever got talent etc... geez I need to patent it, lol.

[cypherdoc]

nice hoax. very smart

you sure about that?  they went as far as to deliver a coupla USB sticks to party offices...

[Chang Hum]

This is definitely a negative thing, although it will more than likely cause a short term bubble it will wake politicians up to the fact there's an online currency that makes all the worlds banks NYC policies redundant.

The nature of this scam will highlight just how dangerous to a government that can be.

[repentance]

https://i.imgur.com/6oZVa.jpg

To be honest, I'm sure all kinds of blackmail threats are made towards candidates every election year.  What's notable about this one - hoax or not - is that it became public.

[cypherdoc]

https://i.imgur.com/6oZVa.jpg

To be honest, I'm sure all kinds of blackmail threats are made towards candidates every election year.  What's notable about this one - hoax or not - is that it became public.

where'd you get that?

[Chang Hum]

Lol it's all over the world news and they've got just over a tenner!

[cypherdoc]

This is definitely a negative thing, although it will more than likely cause a short term bubble it will wake politicians up to the fact there's an online currency that makes all the worlds banks NYC policies redundant.

The nature of this scam will highlight just how dangerous to a government that can be.

why's that?  he could've just as easily asked for $1M USD's and you wouldn't have batted an eye.  but Bitcoin and you do?

[evolve]

Secret service is now involved, so they are taking this as a real threat, it seems.

http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=17162987


Yeah, I think this is the exact opposite of what btc needs.

[elux]

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Hackers Obtain Mitt Romney's Tax Returns?
kvor - ‎25 minutes ago‎
The letters stated an intention to publish Romney's tax returns on Sept. 28, unless $1 million is deposited in a Bitcoin (Internet currency) account, according to Williamson County Democratic Party Chairman Peter Burr, who said both he and his Williamson ...

Hackers Hold Mitt Romney's Tax Returns for Ransom
Opposing Views - ‎28 minutes ago‎
The hackers said they sent USB drives containing information from Romney's tax forms to local Democratic and Republican Party offices. Williamson County Republican party executive director Jean Barwick confirmed receiving the USB drive, but has not ...

Romney's Taxes Hacked? Secret Service Is On It
Mashable - ‎37 minutes ago‎
Romney's team was given until September 28th to transfer $1 million in bitcoins (an untraceable online currency popular in the criminal underworld). Otherwise, the hackers said, the tax returns would either go to the highest bidder or be released on Pastebin ...

Hacker Claims to Have Mitt Romney's Tax Returns
Reason - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Today, a hacker allegedly stole Mitt Romney's tax returns, is demanding $1 million in Bitcoins for silence, and sent a USB drive and letter to the GOP and Democratic party offices in Williamson County, Tennessee as proof. Williamson County Republican party ...

'Anonymous' Hackers Auction Off Mitt Romney's Tax Records
Guestofaguest.com - ‎45 minutes ago‎
Like something out of a Christopher Nolan Batman movie, the hacker group 'Anonymous' claim that they illegally acquired Mitt Romney's tax information from PricewaterhouseCoopers by physically infiltrating their offices. The group set up a Bitcoin account to ...

Secret Service Involved After Hackers Demand $1 Million Bitcoin Ransom For ...
iDigitalTimes.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
After many doubted the validity of two flash drives, allegedly containing Mitt Romney's tax returns for many years prior to 2010, all eyes are on Nashville, TN following word that members of the Secret Service have confiscated the devices as part of an ongoing ...

Hackers Claim Elaborate Heist of Mitt Romney's Tax Returns, Want $1 Million
New York Magazine - ‎1 hour ago‎
During the night, suite 260 was entered, and all available 1040 tax forms for Romney were copied." The imaginative hackers want $1 million, payable in the Internet currency Bitcoins, to either rush the (supposedly) imminent release of the documents or keep ...

Hacker says he's got Romney's tax returns
UPI.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
The letter says the tax returns were stolen from PricewaterhouseCoopers in Franklin, Tenn. The letter threatens to turn the returns over to the news media. The hacker wants the money in Bitcoins, a form of electronic cash. Williamson County Republican party ...

Feds probing alleged theft of Romney's tax returns
CNET - ‎1 hour ago‎
The encrypted key to open the files would be released publicly unless Romney paid the hackers $1 million by transferring that amount in virtual currency called Bitcoins to a specific account. However, if someone else wants the information to be released ...

Mitt Romney's Tax Returns Stolen, Held For Ransom
The Inquisitr - ‎1 hour ago‎
Convert $1,000,000 USD to Bitcoins using the various markets available out in the world for buying… Transfer the Bitcoins gathered to the Bitcoin address listed below. It does not matter if small amounts or one large amount is transferred, as long as the final ...

Hacker claims to have Mitt Romney's tax returns, demands $1 million in Bitcoin
The Verge - ‎2 hours ago‎
Early today a hacker who claims to be affiliated with Anonymous posted documents to Pastebin with some startling claims: someone, the statement claimed, has copies of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns. Mitt Romney has come under ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers Denies Anonymous Hackers Have Mitt Romney Tax ...
U.S. News & World Report - ‎2 hours ago‎
... copied the tax documents of Romney and his wife Ann. The group also threatened interested parties, saying that if they do not want the tax documents released, the parties will pay a ransom of $1 million in Bitcoins, a digital currency that can be encrypted.

Hackers: We Stole Mitt Romney's Tax Returns
PC Magazine - ‎2 hours ago‎
Convert $1,000,000 USD to Bitcoins (Google if if you need a lesson on what Bitcoin is) using the various markets available out in the world for buying," the hackers wrote. "Transfer the Bitcoins gathered to the Bitcoin address listed below. It does not matter if ...

Hackers Holding Mitt Romney's Tax Returns For Bitcoin Ransom
Uproxx - ‎2 hours ago‎
In what sounds like the plotline of a spoof of a Mission Impossible-style political thriller, hackers claim to have broken into an accounting firm's office in Tennessee and made off with copies of Mitt Romney's unreleased tax returns — the tax returns the GOP ...

Group Claims They Hacked Mitt Romney's Tax Records, Demand Ransom
Gather.com - ‎2 hours ago‎
They're asking for $1 million in the form of bitcoins -- a type of digital currency that can be cashed for real money. If they don't get the money, the files will be made public somehow. It will be interesting to see if the Romney campaign chooses to address this, ...

Hackers Claim Romney's Taxes Ransomed for $1 Mln
Discovery News - ‎2 hours ago‎
Mitt Romney's tax returns are allegedly no longer secret. An unidentified group claims to have stolen Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Tennessee offices. Mashable is reporting a hacker group claims ...

PwC Denies Romney's Tax Returns Were Stolen From Its Offices
CNBC.com - ‎2 hours ago‎
The person also demanded that $1 million worth of the online currency Bitcoins be transferred to an account by September 28 or the hackers would post the full tax returns on the Internet. The claim said the information had been obtained from an accounting ...

Hackers claim to have Romney's tax returns, will release Sept 28 unless paid ...
Death and Taxes - ‎2 hours ago‎
A hacker group has just posted a notice to Pastebin that claims they've obtained Mitt Romney's pre-2010 tax returns, and is demanding $1M in Bitcoins to destroy them, or else they'll make them public on September 28. Mashable notes the group describes an ...

Hacker Group Claims to Have Stolen Romney's Old Tax Returns
Firedoglake - ‎2 hours ago‎
These things don't always pan out – remember those secret Bank of America documents allegedly in the possession of Wikileaks? – but Mashable reports that a group of unnamed hackers claim to have obtained a copy of Mitt Romney's pre-2010 tax returns: ...

Hackers Claim to Possess Mitt Romney's Tax Returns, Threaten to Release ...
Gawker - ‎2 hours ago‎
... of Mitt Romney's unreleased tax returns freshly lifted from the PricewaterhouseCoopers offices in Franklin, Tennessee, and say they will make them available to the public at the end of this month unless they receive a million dollars in unmarked Bitcoins.

Hacker holds Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins
VentureBeat - ‎3 hours ago‎
Ready for the most outlandish story of your day? Here we go. Today a hacker allegedly stole Mitt Romney's tax returns and is demanding $1 million in Bitcoins for silence. The hacker also sent a USB drive and letter to the Republican and Democratic party ...

Mitt Romney Tax Returns Hacked? Alleged Ransom Asks For $1 Million In Bitcoins
International Business Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
A team of hackers claims to have stolen Mitt Romney's tax returns from PricewaterhouseCoopers' offices in Franklin, Tenn., and is threatening to release them to the public on Sept. 28 unless a $1 million ransom is paid in Bitcoins, the online currency that is ...

Hackers Claim They're Holding Mitt Romney's Tax Returns for Bitcoin Ransom
Betabeat - ‎4 hours ago‎
Hackers do a lot for epic lulz, including trolling a credulous public in love with stories about improbable, Mission Impossible-worthy hacks. So we are skeptical of The Daily Dot's article about anonymous (we don't yet know if that word should be capitalized) ...

Hackers: Ransom for Romney Returns
Daily Beast - ‎4 hours ago‎
Maybe he should have released them earlier in the election cycle. A team of hackers claims to have obtained Mitt Romney's tax returns and say the documents will be released at the end of September unless the candidate transfers $1 million in Bitcoins, ...

OH PLEASE! This Story About Hackers Stealing Mitt Romney's Tax Return Is ...
Business Insider - ‎4 hours ago‎
They also said they are holding the tax returns for a ransom of $1 million bitcoins, according to another post on Pastebin. An anonymous post on Pastbein asking for Bitcoins? That's basically a parody of hackers. Furthermore, the description of how the tax ...

Hackers Claim to Have Romney Tax Returns, Demand Ransom
Towleroad - ‎4 hours ago‎
The document says that the returns will be released on September 28 unless a random of $1 million in Bitcoins —"an online currency that is difficult both to trace and to identify" — is paid, according to Mashable. In other news, Romney is doing his debate prep ...

Someone's Claiming to Be Holding Romney's Tax Returns for Ransom
The Atlantic Wire - ‎6 hours ago‎
... intriguing than your LinkedIn password being stolen), an anonymous group is claiming that they accessed PricewaterhouseCoopers's network servers in Franklin, Tennessee and are now holding Mitt Romney's tax returns ransom for $1 million in Bitcoins.
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How's that for press coverage?  

[Chang Hum]

This is definitely a negative thing, although it will more than likely cause a short term bubble it will wake politicians up to the fact there's an online currency that makes all the worlds banks NYC policies redundant.

The nature of this scam will highlight just how dangerous to a government that can be.

why's that?  he could've just as easily asked for $1M USD's and you wouldn't have batted an eye.  but Bitcoin and you do?

No that's exactly the point I'm making you couldn't have just as easily asked for $1m USD's

[kentrolla]

hackers gonna hack

[justusranvier]

This is definitely a negative thing, although it will more than likely cause a short term bubble it will wake politicians up to the fact there's an online currency that makes all the worlds banks NYC policies redundant. accepting bribes and kickbacks easy.

fixed

[tgmarks]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but I definitely agree that this will make bitcoin seem more like a threat than if it were presented under other circumstances.

[cypherdoc]

This is definitely a negative thing, although it will more than likely cause a short term bubble it will wake politicians up to the fact there's an online currency that makes all the worlds banks NYC policies redundant.

The nature of this scam will highlight just how dangerous to a government that can be.

why's that?  he could've just as easily asked for $1M USD's and you wouldn't have batted an eye.  but Bitcoin and you do?

No that's exactly the point I'm making you couldn't have just as easily asked for $1 USD's

why not?  drug dealers do it all the time.  and some banks.

[ForceField]

Now on The Wall Street Journal.

They say there is "no evidence that anybody had gained access to Mitt Romney’s old tax returns" according to accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

[SgtSpike]

https://i.imgur.com/6oZVa.jpg

To be honest, I'm sure all kinds of blackmail threats are made towards candidates every election year.  What's notable about this one - hoax or not - is that it became public.

where'd you get that?

No, but seriously, where'd you get that?

[Gabi]

So if someone ask a ransom in dollar then they will ban dollar?

[tgmarks]

Now on The Wall Street Journal.

They say there is "no evidence that anybody had gained access to Mitt Romney’s old tax returns" according to accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

They also don't even mention bitcoin in this one.

[ElectricMucus]

Now on The Wall Street Journal.

They say there is "no evidence that anybody had gained access to Mitt Romney’s old tax returns" according to accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

They also don't even mention bitcoin in this one.

duh