Engineer gets 32 months for locking out his own employer
Daniel Rhyne, a core infrastructure engineer, was sentenced to 32 months for deleting admin accounts and demanding 20 BTC from the New Jersey industrial firm that employed him.
Stories tagged: #extortion
ASOS app hijacked to push Snowflake extortion message
On 6 October, ASOS customers got an in-app 'ASOS HACKED' push claiming a compromised Snowflake instance. Snowflake says its platform was not breached; the scope is unverified.
ShinyHunters member 'Rey' detained in Jordan, aiding FBI
Reuters reports Jordanian authorities detained Saif al-Din Khader, alias 'Rey', who is cooperating with the FBI to locate other ShinyHunters members. He is a suspect, not charged.
Canvas LMS breach: ShinyHunters claims 275M records; Instructure says it paid for deletion
ShinyHunters exfiltrated 3.65 TB from Instructure's Canvas LMS, defaced login pages at 330 schools, then accepted a payment in exchange for 'returning' the data. The data is still out there.