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    <p>India’s anti-terrorism squad has made an arrest after an unnamed person <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="threat" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/threat.html">threat</a>ened to bomb the International Airport of Mumbai unless it handed over $1 million worth of <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="bitcoin" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/bitcoin.html">bitcoin</a> within 48 hours.</p>
    <p>According to The Times of India, the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="threat" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/threat.html">threat</a> was emailed to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="airport" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/airport.html">airport</a> at around 11 am on Thursday.&nbsp;</p>
    <p>The email’s subject read “Blast,” followed by, “This is a final warning to your airport. We will blast Terminal 2 within 48 hours unless one million dollars in Bitcoin are transferred to the address. Another alert will be after 24 Hrs.”</p>
    <p>An executive of Mumbai International Airport Limited said, “I was at the quality and customer care center in the airport when I came across the threat mail. <strong>The threat mail claimed to blow up the airport within 48 hours if the ransom was not paid</strong>.”</p>
    <p>The Free Press Journal reports that a suspect from the city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has been arrested by Maharashtra’s anti-terrorism squad and accused of sending the threatening email.</p>
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    <p>Police from Sahar, Mumbai, reportedly tracked down the internet protocol (IP) address of the unnamed individual who sent the threat, providing a rough idea of where the email was sent from.</p>
    <p>Sahar police said, “The cyber section in the police station has <strong>tracked the location and the team is in the process of identifying the person behind sending the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="threat" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/threat.html">threat</a></strong>.”</p>
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<p>Source: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thebittimes.com/mumbai-airport-threatened-with-bombing-in-bitcoin-blackmail-plot-tbt71504.html">https://thebittimes.com/mumbai-airport-threatened-with-bombing-in-bitcoin-blackmail-plot-tbt71504.html</a></p>

Mumbai airport threatened with bombing in bitcoin blackmail plot

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