{"id":4213,"date":"2018-11-09T21:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/man-sent-letter-bomb-to-bitcoin-firm-over-password-reset\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:11:53","slug":"man-sent-letter-bomb-to-bitcoin-firm-over-password-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/man-sent-letter-bomb-to-bitcoin-firm-over-password-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sent letter bomb to Bitcoin firm &#8216;over password reset&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Password illustraton\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/9C08\/production\/_104244993_gettyimages-828766970.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Police believe a password reset issue was the reason for Salonen&#8217;s actions<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A man has been jailed for sending a &#8220;potentially lethal homemade bomb&#8221; to a Bitcoin firm in London &#8211; after it refused to reset his password for him.<\/p>\n<p>The Met Police, which investigated the case, said detectives could &#8220;only identify one possible reason&#8221; for the Swedish national&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>He had emailed the company, Cryptopay, in August 2017, to ask that he be sent a new password.<\/p>\n<p>Cryptopay, however, refused, saying this contravened its privacy policy.<\/p>\n<p>Jermu Michael Salonen, 43, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison at Stockholm District Court.<\/p>\n<p>He faced a number of charges, including some for sending a white powder to Swedish lawmakers &#8211; among them, the prime minister &#8211; in 2017.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-46048597\" class=\"story-body__link\">Eurostar resets customer passwords after hack attack<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45874695\" class=\"story-body__link\">Lost passwords &#8216;lead to lost savings&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Salonen had addressed a padded envelope containing the device to two Cryptopay employees.<\/p>\n<p>It was delivered at some point in November 2017 to an office in Hackney, which had housed an accountancy firm previously used by Cryptopay.<\/p>\n<p>Several months later, on 8 March 2018, a worker at the office began opening the package but did not continue when they became suspicious of what was inside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are relieved that no one from The Accountancy Cloud team was hurt in this incident,&#8221; a spokesman for Cryptopay told the BBC. &#8220;None of our employees have ever worked at that address.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vast majority of our employees work remotely across Europe, but we are implementing additional security measures to prevent any potential harm to our employees anyway. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thankful for both British and Swedish police, who were able to investigate the case with outstanding professionalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">&#8216;Sheer luck&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;It was due to sheer luck that the recipient ripped opened the package in the middle rather than using the envelope flap which would have activated the device,&#8221; said Commander Clarke Jarrett at the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command.<\/p>\n<p>DNA found in the package did not match information on UK databases, so it was analysed by Interpol. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through these inquiries, it was identified that the DNA matched those of Salonen, who was known to Swedish authorities,&#8221; the Met says.<\/p>\n<p>A search of Salonen&#8217;s home discovered &#8220;numerous bomb components&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-46151991\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Police believe a password reset issue was the reason for Salonen&#8217;s actions A man has been jailed for sending a &#8220;potentially lethal homemade bomb&#8221; to a Bitcoin firm in London &#8211; after it refused to reset his password for him. 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