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GMO Offers Up to $1 Million Bounty for Tips on Hackers Behind FX Trading Cloud Breach

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Japan's GMO Offers $1 Million Bounty to Catch Hackers Behind FX Trading Cloud Breach
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Summary

GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million in total for tips that help catch the attackers who breached its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, which hosts Windows desktops used for FX trading. The company refused to pay an extortion demand. The reward program opened on October 28 and pays only if a tip helps lead to an arrest or an international wanted notice. GMO also announced the bounty for information leading to the group's arrest, and it launched a website to collect leads. Reporting by The Japan Times says the website the hackers used to leak information has been shut down.

This continues an earlier story: Japanese companies move to compensate users after cyberattacks

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  1. The Hacker News

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    The Hacker News reports that GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million in total for tips that help catch the attackers who breached its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, after refusing to pay an extortion demand.

  2. The Japan Times

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    The Japan Times reports that GMO announced a bounty of up to $1 million for information leading to the group's arrest and launched a website to collect leads, and that the website hackers used to leak information was shut down.

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