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Extortion Plot Threatens to Divulge Millions of Patients' Prescriptions

2008-11-06 23:48:00 by David Kravets in Wired Security
 
A St. Louis company managing medical prescriptions of 50 million people says it has alerted the FBI of an extortion plot threatening to divulge the names and prescriptions of millions of its clients. Express Scripts says it received a letter announcing the plot, which seeks an undisclosed amount of money
 
Tags: extortion plot, prescriptions, plot, medical prescriptions, express scripts, millions, divulge, million people, louis company
 
 
 
 
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Express Scripts discloses extortion threat, possible data breach

2008-11-10 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits management company based in St. Louis, Mo., late last week disclosed it received an extortion threat in October pertaining to patient records that it holds
 
Tags: express scripts, extortion threat, patient records, louis, holds, october, week
 
 
 
 
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Drama surrounds People's United Bank breach

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2008-04-08 12:47:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...extortion. "It needs editing," he said, before turning one of the many discs over to the Connecticut Post There are applications for credit cards, reports on bank deposit and account information Hastings says after several months he contacted People's and the bank set up a meeting with him. On March 19, he met with People's Director of...
 
Tags: bank, financial information, information, confidential information, people, bank deposit, hastings, james hastings dove, bank set
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Power Networks

2008-01-22 14:24:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...extortion demands. We suspect, but cannot confirm, that some of these attackers had the benefit of inside knowledge. We have information that cyber attacks have been used to disrupt power equipment in several regions outside the United States. In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know...
 
Tags: power, power companies, companies, cia actively, power outages, cia, cia rumor, disrupt power equipment, attacks
 
 
 
 
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Bill allows victims of identity theft to obtain restitution

2008-09-17 23:28:07 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...extortion to include a demand for money in relation to damage to a protected computer, where such damage was caused to facilitate the extortion It also allows victims of identity theft to obtain restitution for time and money spent to restore credit and imposes a fine and imprisonment for installing spyware on a computer
 
Tags: computer, computer fraud offenses, identity theft, theft, fraud offenses, obtain restitution, commit computer, imposes criminal, extortion
 
 
 
 
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Not Your Father's Data Breach

2008-11-20 09:37:59 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...extortion letter, the details of which it released on Nov. 6 The letter included personal information on about 75 Express Scripts clients Social Security numbers, dates of birth and, in some cases, information about prescription medications. Whoever sent the letter demanded money from the company the amount has not been disclosed and...
 
Tags: information, personal information, medical information, data, personal, personal medical records, medical records, systems, security systems
 
 
 
 
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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Extortion The Biggest Military Hacks of All Time
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise
 
 
 
 
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BlackEnergy DDoS Bot Web Based C&Cs

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2008-02-12 18:46:35 by HASH0x8b1c6c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...extortion get orchestrated through such interfaces httpdoc.info/black/auth.php (66.29.71.16 wmstore.info/hello/auth.php (216.241.21.62 lunaroverlord.awardspace.com/auth.php (82.197.131.52 333prn.com/xxx/auth.php (64.247.18.208 It's getting even more interesting to see different campaigns within, that in between serving Trojan.Win32.Buzus.yn...
 
Tags: ddos, bot, blackenergy ddos bot, blackenergy, ddos extortion, ddos attacks, traditional irc bot, irc, botnet master
 
 
 
 
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Embedding Malicious IFRAMEs Through Stolen FTP Accounts

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2008-03-03 10:14:01 by HASH0x8b0b9bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Extortion Malware as a Web Service Multiple Firewalls Bypassing Verification on Demand Managed Spamming Appliances - The Future of Spam Botnet on Demand Service DIY CAPTCHA Breaking Service Managed Fast-Flux Provider Which CAPTCHA Do You Want to Decode Today Localizing Cybercrime - Cultural Diversity on Demand On the other side of the...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data