Engineer Gets 32 Months for Bitcoin Extortion Plot Against His Own Employer

DecryptOctober 7, 2026 · 1:34 PM2 min read

Daniel Rhyne locked his company's IT administrators out of its network and demanded 20 BTC, then worth $750,000, to stop the shutdowns.

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Daniel Rhyne locked his company's IT administrators out of its network and demanded 20 BTC, then worth $750,000, to stop the shutdowns.

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