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A hacker has been sentenced to five years in a US prison for laundering the proceeds of one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts.

The hacker group Qilin, which held NHS hospitals to ransom earlier this summer, notably chose to publish stolen blood test data on its Telegram channel before its dark web website.

For instance, if a child's password is "fluffy123," walk them through how effortless it would be for a hacker to guess.

If the company did not pay, the hacker said they would publish or sell the stolen information online.

Once given access to the company’s computer network, the hacker downloaded sensitive company data and sent a ransom demand.