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An investigator of the antivirus maker Kaspersky Lab discovered that the source code was stored at a hard drive location, in which the first name and the name of one of the suspects were mentioned, according to a reenactment de Volkskrant [samedi]
The High Tech Crime team of the Dutch police then associated the name with an IP address of a man from Amersfoort. In September 2015, it was reported that two suspects in the city had been arrested
. The host software, also known as ransomware, "hijacks" files on a computer by encrypting them. Victims can recover the files by paying a ransom. In this way, CoinVault's creators were able to capture thousands of euros
Later, Kaspersky Lab released nearly 15,000 digital keys to unlock the files. In this way, victims could get their files for free.
Most of CoinVault's victims came from the Netherlands. People have also been affected in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. The two suspects, who have already known, must appear before the judge on July 12.
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