Cryptocurrency expert released after $1 million bitcoin ransom

The Guardian reports that an employee of a U.K. bitcoin exchange has been released after a bitcoin ransom of $1 million was paid. EXMO Finance, the company that abductee Pavel Lerner works for, stated that the blockchain expert was kidnapped on Boxing Day while in Ukraine. The company said that Lerner had not been harmed, but would not be making any public comments due to stress.