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...Blinken added that these hackers cost governments and businesses “billions of dollars” in stolen intellectual property, ransom payments and cyber defences....
...The number of ransomware attacks, in which hackers seize a company’s systems or data and will release them only when a ransom is paid, has doubled across the UK in 2021 compared with last year....
...Additional reporting by Patrick McGee in San Francisco and Eleanor Olcott in Taipei...
...As we found, you don’t need to spend a king’s ransom to have a right royal time of it....
...His liberation came, eventually, thanks to his mother, the redoubtable Eleanor, who whirled around European courts seeking funds to help pay the ransom of 150,000 marks (probably worth about £2bn today)....
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