strange they are asking for $70 million to in bitcoin, when bitcoin is more traceable, and in particular there have been two big cases in the us, one against the pipeline, one against the pipeline, one against the pipeline, one against the meatpacker, and in the pipeline case that paid in bitcoin, and the us was able to hack it back in a sense, recover a bunch of. is weird that these guys are asking for bitcoin. i that these guys are asking for bitcoin. ., , ., ., ., ,~ bitcoin. i was going to ask about that. bitcoin. i was going to ask about that. given - bitcoin. i was going to ask about that. given that i bitcoin. i was going to ask about that. given that the j bitcoin. i was going to ask- about that. given that the dark side pack on the us pipeline that caused chaos to big swathes of the us for a period of time, they managed to get the money back, the us authorities, we were all saying at the time does this not put off future cyber attacks in terms of what hackers might do next,
and so we saw all this rise of extortion. they started leaking documents out of the companies. the other thing is they started moving towards more critical targets, right? if you want to ensure that these targeted organizations pay out, you got to make sure the type of organizations that need to be back online. and consumers will force organizations to be back online. they re complaining about the services they re not getting. and these companies have to make very difficult decisions. you make a point about a particular kind of institution that is particularly alarming as a target and that is hospitals. lives are in danger here. yeah. how extensive is that? yeah, you know, we re talking about this pipeline case, some other and the meat supply here. but during the pandemic, we saw actors that were so brazen that they were targeting en masse hospitals in the united states and all over the globe. they recognized how critical