Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. The emails claim to come from ...

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Organised crime gangs are flooding university students' inboxes with blackmail demands, threatening to expose compromising footage unless victims pay up in bitcoin.

Q: I received an email showing me one of my passwords and that my computer had been compromised. They say they’re going to release my private information and a video they took of me with my computer’s ...

A highly effective new email scam now circling the web uses a clever ploy to trick victims into paying up. The email uses an old password dump to convince the victims that the hacker was able to break ...

When Alan Irwin matched with a potential partner on Tinder, he had no idea that just days later he would be speaking with police. The 35-year-old went to them last month to report an attempted ...

AURORA, Mo.—Kari Boettler could not comprehend what she found on her late son’s cellphone on Feb. 5, 2024. She was searching the metadata to determine why 16-year-old Evan had shot himself in their ...

A new sextortion scam is making the rounds that pretends to be an email from the adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video of you was uploaded to the site and suggesting you pay to ...

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public about what deputies are calling sextortion scams. In one report, a man was exchanging nude photos with a woman on a social media app, when the ...

Alan Irwin has some sound advice for other victims of sextortion When Alan Irwin matched with a potential partner on Tinder, he had no idea that just days later he would be speaking to police. The ...