Russian national, 27, admits trying to steal data from Tesla to use for extortion: Elon Musk tweets ‘Crime and Punishment’ in Russian as sentencing looms Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, tried persuading a Tesla employee to help install malware on the company’s network to help steal company data Kriuchkov would’ve used data to extort the company … Read more
Sheep farmer, 45, who put three jars of baby food laced with shards of metal on Tesco store shelves in bid to extort £1.4m from them is jailed for 14 years Nigel Wright from Lincolshire tried to extort Tesco for nearly £1.4million bitcoin The 45-year-old was angry at the supermarket chain for ‘underpaying for milk’ He … Read more
Hackers used ransomware to take over parts of UC San Francisco’s network and extorted $1.14million in exchange for returning access to their files University of California San Francisco lost control of some of its files in a hack Ransomware was used to encrypt files and UCSF agreed to pay for their return UCSF hasn’t said … Read more