That’s is the information according to an onion site, whose writers require that if Equifax forks over 600 Bitcoin roughly $2.66 million at the moment of this writing then erase all the stolen data. Oh, and Equifax rightly decide quickly, because if the payment isn’t paid, the self-identified hackers say they’ll drop all the data on September 15th.
Well, about all of the data. The thought hackers wrote that they won’t openly post credit card numbers implying an aim to get some illegal use out of those.
“We are two persons attempting to solve our lives and those of our families,” the site explains. “We did not anticipate to get as much data as we did, nor do we want to attack any citizen. But we need to monetize the data as soon as possible.”
Now, you’d be wise to be skeptical of these cases, after all, it’s pretty simple to throw commonly a website and pretend to be a hacker. But, there’s a twist: In a letter directed to Equifax, the authors say they can prove they’re legit.
“Request a particular part or a specific data from an email that answers to Equifax and we will send it to you,” the group explains.
News reached out both to Equifax and the body or persons behind the onion site, but haven’t got a reply from either as of press time. We’ll renew the article this when and if we hear back.
The purported hackers, while, appear to not be outwardly a sense of humor albeit, a puzzling one. That 600 BTC payment equalling roughly $2.6 million? Here’s how they pretend to have arrived at the number.
“Equifax officials sold 3 million bucks in shares taking advantage of their insider data after the attack,” notes the site. “We think that 600 BTC is a fair amount.”
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