“Various sources — I saw it on VentureBeat — are reporting that PricewaterhouseCoopers, the big accounting firm, might have been hacked and that cyberthieves have made off with Mitt and Ann Romney’s tax returns. None of this is substantiated, but here’s the zany part: the hackers are asking for a $1-million ransom, to not release Romney’s tax returns, a source of campaign controversy, to the media. The ransom must be paid in Bitcoin, the cybercurrency with a checkered past but a devoted following amond the tech-libertarian set.”
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