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Detroit Free Press - Jun 20th, 1975

I'm fascinated by the idea of before ransomware, data extortion that impacted availability or confidentiality of data before the advent of malicious software for encryption.

Stumbled across this 70s news story about "tapenapping" of backup tapes.

NEW FORM OF COMPUTER CRIME 'Tapenapping' Racket Spreads Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON - The com- puter has ushered in a new type of international crime, computer-related thefts, ac- cording to Robert Farr, one of the world's few experts on technological fraud. Perhaps the most original new criminal gimmick is the "kidnapping" of computer tapes containing highly valu- able information, and holding the tapes for ransom. Farr doesn't know ow widespread this new racket has become. The reason, he says, is that most victims seem more anxious to regain possession of their tapes or disks than to capture and send the thieves to jail. In "The Electronic Crimi- nals" (McGraw-Hill $8.95), Farr quotes one unidentified banker-victim as saying: "Our security was lax, and we did not want the public to know how easily the thief got away with our data bank tape. The records of many of our good customers were in those files. If they were to learn we had been so careless in pro- tecting this informat

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2 mesi fa

From “Computer Capers: Tales of Electronic Thievery, Embezzlement, and Fraud” by Thomas Whiteside, published in 1978.

The ransom attempt failed, because the bank had in its files duplicates of the stolen tapes.
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