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leak the names of confidential informants to crime gangs, the operators agreed to remove the data while they carried out the now-aborted negotiations, the transcripts showed.
“This is unacceptable”
The operators demanded $4 million in exchange for a promise not to publish any more information and provide a decryption key that would restore the data.
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