{"id":2231,"date":"2026-07-14T03:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/a-ransomware-negotiator-who-colluded-with-attackers-to-scam-victims-was-sentenced-to-70-months-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:53:26","slug":"a-ransomware-negotiator-who-colluded-with-attackers-to-scam-victims-was-sentenced-to-70-months-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/a-ransomware-negotiator-who-colluded-with-attackers-to-scam-victims-was-sentenced-to-70-months-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"A ransomware negotiator who colluded with attackers to scam victims was sentenced to 70 months in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angelo Martino helped scam ransomware victims out of over $75 million, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/a-ransomware-negotiator-who-colluded-with-attackers-to-scam-victims-was-sentenced-to-70-months-in-prison\/intro-1783972323.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/a-ransomware-negotiator-who-colluded-with-attackers-to-scam-victims-was-sentenced-to-70-months-in-prison\/\">A ransomware negotiator who colluded with attackers to scam victims was sentenced to 70 months in prison<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angelo Martino helped scam ransomware victims out of over $75 million, officials said. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; A ransomware negotiator who colluded with attackers to scam victims was sentenced to 70 months in prison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}