Put on your travel shoes for this story we're going south of the border.

Actually much more south than you think.

Go on past Mexico, past Panama, past the equator even.

Keep on going past Brazil and there you'll find Uruguay.

It's a small country about the size of the state of Missouri.

In February 2017, one of the top medical providers in the capital city of Montevideo got hacked.

This medical provider has a whole network of clinics and healthcare facilities.

The hacker broke in through the provider's website, accessed the database and took a ton

of patient records.

A week later, the hacker sent a ransom email to the medical provider showing they

had confidential data and demanded they pay 15 big coins.

They didn't get the big coins, they said they would publicly release the patient details

of everyone who had HIV and cancer.

The note went on to say the price will go up by 5 big coins every day they don't pay.

It's unclear if the medical provider paid the ransom or not.

In some news articles, it said they did pay, but someone close to this case told me the

email didn't even have a big coin address in it.

Either way, the patient records never actually got leaked.

The medical provider immediately began investigating who this hacker was.

They worked with local police to try to track down who was behind the extortion.

After seven months, they got their break.

They were able to track down the IP address of who sent the email to an apartment in Montevideo.

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