#extortion

#extortion

Data from 28,000 internal projects at Red Hat has been stolen. The hacker group Crimson Collective claims to have stolen nearly 570GB of data. The stolen information is not only affecting Red Hat: BleepingComputer reports that customer data from around 800 Customer Engagement Reports has also been stolen. The hackers claim that the breach took place around two weeks ago. Customer Engagement Reports (CERs) are documents that contain infrastructure details, configuration data, authentication keys, and other sensitive customer information.

"While Coberg stood watch over the victim, Iza demanded - and recorded a video of - the victim transferring $127,000 to a bank account Iza controlled," the statement said. "Iza then directed his security guards to take away the victim's passport."

The ShinyHunters extortion group claims to have stolen over 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens. For the past year, the threat actors have been targeting Salesforce customers in data theft attacks using social engineering and malicious OAuth applications to breach Salesforce instances and download data. The stolen data is then used to extort companies into paying a ransom to prevent the data from being publicly leaked.

According to the indictment, around November 2022, Echeverrias paid for the victim to come to New York from Mexico and live with the defendant for approximately six months. During that time, the victim was forced to pay Echeverrias $800 a night by having sex with various men on Roosevelt Avenue. The victim was also coerced into robbing the men to meet a daily quota set by the defendant. The victim was physically harmed and slapped when she did not comply.

And in whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it - 'Where did that come from?... Why did that happen? - and then just finally being like, 'So what?' So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f***ing fun, and life goes on.

"Agentic AI has been weaponized," the company said in a . "AI models are now being used to perform sophisticated cyber attacks, not just advise on how to carry them out."

The lawsuit alleges that the woman sought to extort money from John Gomez and was involved in a plot to damage his reputation through coordinated efforts with multiple attorneys.

When Luis, 80, died this past April, his daughter Mariana discovered that the cemetery would charge her $350 for a burial mound, contingent on his background.

Cameron Romo was charged with three felony counts each of extortion and soliciting a bribe after a citizen complaint in June 2024.

In June 2024, the Sheriff's Department received a complaint from a citizen regarding Deputy Cameron Romo, who was then put on administrative leave.

After the victim informed the account she knew he was scamming her, he reportedly threatened to expose explicit pictures she'd sent him if she didn't forward him $10,000.

The Ajax striker Brian Brobbey has been the target of violent extortion threats involving arson, explosions, and a shooting, following his refusal to pay 150,000 to a criminal.

"He used his position as a deputy superintendent to order maintenance workers to perform repairs at his home during and after work hours without compensation."