Those things drop out of pockets at the worst times. Like, say, when you’re hurling a bomb at a brick-and-mortar that you’ve also DDoSed.
Tag Archives: extortion
Bella Thorne steals hacker’s thunder, publishes nude photos herself
Sheesh! At this rate, extortionists are going to have to seek alternate employment.
Radiohead releases ‘OK Computer’ sessions that hacker tried to ransom
The band shrugged off the threat and released the files on Bandcamp. They’re long and not very interesting, they said.
Extortionists leak data of huge firms after IT provider refuses to pay
The data was published after “Boris Bullet-Dodger” failed to get Citycomp to cough up.
Dark Overlord hackers release alleged 9/11 lawsuit documents
The extortionists leaked a “small sample” of what they say are 18k classified legal documents containing 9/11 “truth” stolen from a law firm.
Sextortion scam knows your password, but don’t fall for it
The scam emails claim to have compromising video of you, and back it up by showing you one of your passwords.
Mugshots.com’s alleged owners arrested for extortion
Mugshots.com publishes people’s mugshots and extorts a removal fee.
Encrypted email provider ProtonMail caves in to extortion, hands over $6000
Having handed over $6000 to DDoS blackmailers, ProtonMail’s website is still unavailable following attacks with “an unprecedented level of sophistication.”
Ashley Madison data breach leads to extortion attempts
“Send me 1.00000001 bitcoins or I’ll tell your spouse you were cheating” seems to be how it goes down…
Ransomware – should you pay?
The big question, usually left unanswered in technical discussions of ransomware, is, “Should you pay?” We help you make up your mind.