Nokia paid millions of euros to a blackmailer to protect an encryption key of the Symbian phones. The extortion took place around the end of the year 2007.
The National Bureau of Investigation confirms that the case is still unsolved.
This is very interesting. Aside from the obvious illegal nature of it all, it’s quite a clever crime, and the perpetrators were never caught. This makes me wonder if something similar could happen to the mobile operating systems of today.
This is a fake news story. Amusing how OSNews is about the only one falling for it.
This story is on virtually every site. What are you talking about?
Virtually every page… try translating the investigator name (Tämä Väärennös) to english… The back story here is very local to finland due to the ongoing EU investigation of nokia, and I guess most of the english speaking countries have a hard time getting the joke.
Edited 2014-06-18 09:40 UTC
Apparently the Finnish police is in on it too. They are part of the hoax to damage Nokia and Symbian?
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/17/us-nokia-idUKKBN0ES1UC2014…
Reuters reiterating…
Think about it: nokia payed millions and the blackmailer “would promise not to share the key”.
Really? Does that scan? You’re a journalist. You can do better.
Edited 2014-06-18 09:45 UTC
They are not. Reuters went to the Finnish police to confirm the story independently. Are you aware of how this works?
I’m sorry, but unless you come up with proof that this story is fake, I’m going to go with the respected news outlets, okay?
Okay
A citizen of Finland here: MTV(.fi) is the largest Finnish commercial television channel (and therefore one of the largest Finnish news mediae in general) and they have no incentive to post hoaxes as news. Also you got the name wrong: it’s not “Tämä Väärennös” but Tero Haapala.
I don’t understand why this dumbass here wants to resort to lying to make this news report seem less trusted.
Edited 2014-06-18 10:30 UTC
What I find interesting is how does one transfer millions of € in an untraceable manner…
Well, it’s either a fraud and Nokia really is the dumbest company ever. Yeah, lets pay millions to a guy *who we don’t know who he is* to make him promise to never use the key. I guess they just totally failed to realize that he’s completely untrustworthy to begin with.
Exactly. That makes no sense. Something is wrong with this story.
Lowest common denominator. Just as the articles about the republicans folding on purpose to Hillary. Yes, the folks will believe it is true, as we will hammer it in.
How can Nokia pay millions of dollars and police not being able to track it? The only way is to pay in cash or through black funds using money laundering techniques. Is Nokia doing that? There’s something strange in this story…