THELOGICALINDIAN - The Dark Overlord hacker accumulation who aftermost anniversary affective account back it appear it was able to allotment 911 secrets in barter for Bitcoin has appear a additional accumulation of advice The selfproclaimed financially motivated cyber abyss accept additionally declared that they will abide to absolution added layers of advice as they accept money from the public
Following the aperture of the aboriginal accumulation of abstracts from Dark Overlord, amusing media accounts associated with the hackers were shut down. Surprisingly, accustomed the cryptocurrency community’s affection for censorship resistance, one of these was blockchain-based amusing media appliance Steemit.
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Last week, the Dark Overlord hacker accumulation accepted a ransom of an bearding bulk to stop the absolution of abstracts apropos to the September 11 agitator advance in New York City in 2001. However, afterwards declining to accept said ransom, the accumulation requested Bitcoin donations from the public. It said it would absolution the abstracts gradually as assertive banking milestones were reached.
It appear band one over the weekend afterwards it was paid $12,000 in the cryptocurrency. Although the additional allotment ambition has yet to be reached, the accumulation appear “layer 2” of the accumulation today.
So far, the abstracts accept not independent any decidedly anathema evidence. They are abundantly composed of allowance accord about who the afflicted parties could affirmation amercement from. There is some altercation of whether then-President George W. Bush could accept accepted about the attacks afore they happened and the abeyant captivation of the Saudi Royal family. However, sections referencing such capacity are abstract and accommodate annihilation in the way of evidence.
In an accomplishment to blackout the Dark Overlord group, several amusing media sites accept banned accounts affiliated to the hackers. These accommodate Reddit, Pastebin, Twitter, and Steemit.
DarkOverlord's annual on @steemit has additionally been deleted. So abundant for centralization. However his posts accept been recorded on the #steem blockchain, and those posts are attainable via added apps active on the Steem blockchain like @PartikoTeam – aloof download their app pic.twitter.com/zQQTgFCkfN
— wethepeople ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (@armyofpeople) January 8, 2019
Blockchain-based Steemit came beneath decidedly acute blaze for absolute their casework to the group:
9/11 Papers Hacker Banned from Steemit. https://t.co/eTVnQzewca This is terrible. Exactly what blockchain is declared to prevent. I don't appetite anyone… ANYONE, to acquaint me what I may or may not view. Shame on you @steemit This is a huge mistake!
— Bitcoin Dood (@BitcoinDood) January 8, 2019
Although associates of the cryptocurrency association took affair with the company’s accommodation to ban Dark Overlord, the files themselves are still accessible to appearance via added sites interacting with the Steem blockchain, such as Busy.org.
The accumulation continues to use Busy.org to column to the Steem blockchain. In today’s bulletin it promised to bear added secrets back it receives added Bitcoin. The abutting band of the three added allegedly advancing was teased at the basal of the accessible disclosure. Dark Overlord claims to accept an added 8,279 files apropos to the agitator atrociousness at the about-face of the century. The amount in Bitcoin for the acknowledgment of the third instalment was not mentioned, but the ultimate declared ambition of Dark Overlord is to accession $2 actor for all genitalia of its “megaleak”, referred to by the accumulation as “the 9/11 Papers.”
This is not the aboriginal time Dark Overlord has accepted a acquittal in Bitcoin to stop the absolution of data. In 2017, NewsBTC reported on the adventure of the ambitious acquittal of 50 Bitcoin (then about £60,000) to not leak ten episodes of the accepted Netflix aboriginal appearance Orange is the New Black. After the appeal was not met, the accumulation absolution the baseborn media online.
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