{
  "id": 12628401,
  "title": "Engineer Gets 32 Months for Bitcoin Extortion Plot Against His Own Employer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/engineer-gets-32-months-for-bitcoin-extortion-plot-against-his-own",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-07T12:39:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Decrypt",
    "slug": "decrypt",
    "url": "https://decrypt.co/380284/engineer-gets-32-months-for-bitcoin-extortion-plot-against-his-own-employer"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Daniel Rhyne locked his company's IT administrators out of its network and demanded 20 BTC, then worth $750,000, to stop the shutdowns.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}