Quince was not a great student in high school, but she loves computers. She creates a computer virus that locks up an infected computer. The only way to unlock it without destroying all the data on it is to pay for the code, which only she has. She manages to slip the virus into the Montefiore Hospital Medical Records computers. They can’t get into the records and are afraid to lose the data so they pay Quincee $200,000 “ransom” through bitcoin to a secret account. Is this a crime against a person, property, or society?

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