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Police are said to have contacted the hackers, who left behind a blackmail note, and persuaded them to supply a digital key that would decrypt the hospital’s 30 infected computer servers.
RANSOMWARE ATTACK ON A HOSPITAL MAY BE FIRST EVER TO CAUSE A DEATHRHHACKETTFORTUNESEPTEMBER 18, 2020FORTUNE
If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Bois l'Hery's horses were unsound, Schwalbach's gallery was a swindle, Moessard's articles a recognised blackmail.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDET
The only possible scandal lies in the fact that Mrs. Withers paid blackmail for years.
THE WINNING CLUEJAMES HAY, JR.
He attempted to blackmail my father, as he had already done so many times, but his scheme was frustrated.
THE CZAR'S SPYWILLIAM LE QUEUX
All the American press is not founded upon this system of virtual blackmail.
AS A CHINAMAN SAW USANONYMOUS
I can't afford to advertise in his vile sheet; it's blackmail; money wasted—thrown away.
DOMINIE DEANELLIS PARKER BUTLER
What this particular "lady" is to the "gentleman" we don't know, but it sounds very much like blackmail.
SEEING THINGS AT NIGHTHEYWOOD BROUN
It seemed puzzling, because you wouldn't think of him as a likely subject for blackmail.
THE BOOK OF LIFE: VOL. I MIND AND BODY; VOL. II LOVE AND SOCIETYUPTON SINCLAIR
Every now and then you would read in the paper how some woman had been arrested for attempting to blackmail him in his office.
THE BOOK OF LIFE: VOL. I MIND AND BODY; VOL. II LOVE AND SOCIETYUPTON SINCLAIR

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