Security News > 2022 > November > New extortion scam threatens to damage sites’ reputation, leak data
An active extortion scam is targeting website owners and admins worldwide, claiming to have hacked their servers and demanding $2,500 not to leak data.
The scam is so widespread that our own reporter Ax Sharma and Have I Been Breached created Troy Hunt have also received these extortion attempts.
The spam messages warn that the hackers will leak stolen data, damage their reputation, and get the site blacklisted for spam if the targets don't make a payment of $2,500.
We will systematically go through a series of steps to totally damage your reputation.
From extortion emails seen by BleepingComputer, the threat actors are currently using two bitcoin addresses.
Since the summer of 2018, when BleepingComputer started reporting on these scams, threat actors have been behind a wide assortment of email extortion scams.