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This article had been moved to Draft for Wikipedia:DELAY and Wikipedia:SENSATIONAL in order to let develop the article - unfortunately the creator moved it directly back to mainspace. CommanderWaterford ( talk) 08:17, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
Declining to say whether they paid a ransom or not is standard practice; there is nothing encyclopedic about it. I removed it as including it amounts to undue weight; certainly at this stage. Friendly regards and respect to all, Springnuts ( talk) 15:31, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
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When the total economic cost of this attack is known, the article should mention it. Thanks 142.184.189.65 ( talk) 16:49, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Though the number of bitcoin being demanded is consistent (75), the assigned value varies between the Introduction and the Impact section - the first says $4.4m, the second says $5m. Obviously the price of BTC is variable but that seems like a big difference across only a couple of paragraphs.
On May 7 BTC was $55,824 [1] which would make 75 BTC = $4.186m. Perhaps someone else has ideas on how to resolve this? Thisischarlesarthur ( talk) 11:55, 4 August 2021 (UTC)