30

Stories about: extortion attempt

People's Lives Held for Ransom via SMS The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued warnings to the general public after it received reports of death threats being made via mobile phone text messages. The bogus SMSes inform people that they are about to be killed if they do not contact an e-mail address and follow instructions. Australian... 3 July 2009 05:38 GMT Virginia Patient Records Held for Ransom An unknown hacker defaced the website of the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program and left a message saying that he made an encrypted backup of the medical information stored in the database and deleted the original. A security breach has been confirmed by the Virginia Department of Health, but officials have ref... 6 May 2009 04:43 GMT