Shadow Brokers gives up hacking tool auction - gives away stash of NSA-linked hacking tools instead

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Shadow Brokers bow out claiming that it was all about the money, which they didn't receive enough of

Shadow Brokers, the hacking group that claimed to have cracked a US National Security Agency cache of illicit security services' malware, have given up their auction - and decided to give away many...

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