Shenzhen “fake hacker” jailed for 3 years and 3 months for attempting to extort 0.88 bitcoins and 90,000 USDT from a company

Comparative news. According to a report by Procuratorate Daily, an employee of an enterprise in Shenzhen posed as an overseas hacker after stealing the company's core research and development data due to online loan pressure of more than 400,000 yuan to demand a ransom of 0.88 bitcoins and 90,000 USDT from the company. In the end, he was jailed for three years and three months and fined 10,000 yuan for extortion (attempted).