But by then Idefense had sifted out the 20 culprit PCs, breaking the state-of-the-art encryption that had masked their Internet addresses and handing the information to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and Canadian law officials.
"We have, for example, worked to raise awareness of good practice in data handling and information sharing through a series of seminars for organisations with responsibility for handing a variety of sensitive information, " he said.
As the torture continued Coats extracted enough information to realise that Lynda had been handing over some of his money to Mr Glen, the property developer she had scammed.
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