This reminds me of the Casino boot-sector virus from the early 90's. It loaded a copy of your file allocation table (FAT) into memory and deleted both copies from you hard drive. You then had 7 credits in an ASCII displayed slot machine to win your FAT back before the program deleted it from memory. No ransom required in this case.

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