A hacker is ransoming account data stolen from music streaming service Mixcloud, according to reports.
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Leaky database full of fake Groupon emails turns out to belong to crooks
Crooks made bogus accounts to buy tickets with fake credit cards, resold them to unsuspecting buyers, and left the database-o-fraud wide open.
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.
Babysitting app suffers ‘temporary data breach’ of 93,000 users
Babysitting-booking app Sitter “temporarily” exposed the personal data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet of Things (IoT) search engine.
Hackers hold 80,000 healthcare records to ransom
CarePartners said its forensic investigation identified 1500 affected records – the hackers say they took 80,000.
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.”
Child abuser sextortionist hijacked victims’ Facebook and email accounts
James S. Allen, sentenced to 262 months in prison, sent victims to a phishing site set disguised as a Flickr log-in site.
Dating site buys back 20 million hacked email addresses
Despite the hacker putting the email addresses up for sale, the undisclosed sum is apparently not ransom, it’s an “award”, says hacked site Topface.
Domino’s Pizza hacked, customer database held to ransom
Hacker group, Rex Mundi, who claim to have cracked a Domino’s Pizza database say they have stolen the details of more than 650,000 dough-loving customers. It says the data will be released later today if the pizza chain fails to pay a ransom of €30,000.