Scammers are targeting website owners with blackmail messages asking them to pay ransoms between $1,500 and $3,000 in bitcoins to avoid having their sites’ databases leaked and their reputation destroyed. The scammers also try to further scare their targets into paying out the $2,000 ransom by threatening to de-index the sites from search engines using “blackhat”” SEO techniques. Researchers at WebARX who first reported this scam found multiple Bitcoin wallets being used to collect the ransom payments.”
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/extortionists-threaten-to-destroy-sites-in-fake-ransom-attacks/