Police hunt Bitcoin extortionist after another letter bomb explodes in Amsterdam

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Police hunt Bitcoin extortionist after another letter bomb explodes in Amsterdam

Two bombs yesterday, another two today

Dutch police are responding to a spate of letter bombs sent to offices across the country as part of a Bitcoin extortion plot.

On Thursday, a letter bomb caused a small explosion at an ING Bank office in Amsterdam, Reuters reports. Just hours earlier, authorities disarmed one delivered to an office of US tech firm Unisys, located near Utrecht.

The incidents follow the explosion of two letter bombs on Wednesday, one at ABN Amro bank's Amsterdam mail-sorting office, and another in the Kerkide mailroom of Japanese electronics firm Ricoh, close to the Germany border.

Luckily, nobody was harmed in any case.

Bitcoin extortion plot tied to January's letter bombs

Authorities said Wednesday's packages had not been similarly labeled. They urged mail recipients should be cautious of thick white envelopes sent with two stamps, and have a printed piece of white paper with the delivery and return addresses in plastic attached.

The running police theory connects the bombs n