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Engineer Who Sabotaged Employer for Bitcoin Ransom Gets Prison Time
Bitcoin.com News·October 7, 2026·1 min read
Daniel Rhyne, 59, of Kansas City, Missouri, received a 32-month federal prison sentence on Sept. 28 for sabotaging his employer's computer systems and demanding roughly $750,000 in bitcoin to stop the attack. Rhyne, a former infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey industrial company, pleaded guilty to the charges.
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