Christine Dobby reports: Drake International, the Canadian-based job placement firm, confirmed Wednesday that it has been the victim of a hacking scheme by a group seeking to extort payment in exchange for not releasing the personal information of people who have used Drake’s services. […] The hackers that contacted Drake on Monday, made their threats…
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Hacking VS Extortion, Hacker attempts to extort websites
Extortion has been around since the turn of time and in recent years more and more "hackers" are using this method to try and bully their victims into paying money to prevent their websites or services being hacked. This week it has come to light that a hacker using the handle @RexMundi_Anon has been attempting to…
Dutch employment agency applicant data allegedly leaked following extortion attempt
@quentynblog kindly pointed me to what appears to be yet another extortion attempt that resulted in a data leak when the breached entity wouldn’t pay: From the hackers’ post: Dear friends (and enemies), Last week, we hacked into the Web server of Accord.nl, a Dutch temporary employment company, downloading thousands of job applicant records. We…