June has been quite the month for news of cyber extortion, ransomware, and hacking hostage taking. Code Spaces was hit by a DDoS attack and then extorted by a hacker who had gained control of the firm’s Amazon EC2 control panel. Nokia was forced to pay millions of euros in extortion money in 2007 after a hacker stole an encryption key in its Symbian operating system. Domino’s pizza chain refused to comply with extortion demands and threatened to release stolen data if it didn’t pay a ransom.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/6-recent-real-life-cyber-extortion-scams