'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC
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BBC Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy was offered a deal by criminals to help hack the BBC
Like many things in the shadowy world of cyber-crime, an insider threat is something very few people have experience of. Even fewer people want to talk about it. But I was given a unique and worrying experience of how hackers can leverage insiders when I myself was recently propositioned by a criminal gang. "If you are interested, we can offer you 15% of any ransom payment if you give us access to your PC." That was the message I received out of the blue from someone called Syndicate who pinged me in July on the encrypted chat app Signal. I had no idea who this person was but instantly knew what it was about.
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