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Child Porn Accusation As Online Extortion Tactic

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-an-fbi-method dept.

Glenn writes "There's a story on silicon.com about a new twist in the tactics used by online extortionists trying to blackmail ecommerce sites with denial of service attacks. Yesterday one blackmailer threatened to send out child pornography emails in UK gambling site Blue Square's name if it didn't pay up 7000 Euros." This sounds even worse than simple DoS threats.

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  1. w00t by elitebrad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Porn! I should patent the idea!