Online extortion ring broken up. online extortion ring broken up. Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and Russia have cracked down on a major extortion ring accused of prying hundreds of thousands of dollars from online sports betting Web sites, according to a statement from the U.K.’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit....

Insurance companies to cover website extortions and security breaches. cyberinsurance grows 2005. However larger companies, who may be faced with multi-million dollar extortion attempts, typically have to deal with an independent assessment. Perhaps the most famous case of extortion from that era was when a group of hackers tried to extort $200,000 from Michael Bloomberg in return for not exposing security holes in his website....

Asus and Chinese police thwart $5 million dollar extortion attempt. asus laptop extortion. Asus and the Beijing police have thwarted a $5 million dollar extortion attempt. Beijing (China) - Asus and the Beijing police have thwarted a $5 million dollar extortion attempt....

2 teens charged with MySpace.com extortion. myspace extortion. Two New York teenagers were in police custody Wednesday facing illegal computer access and attempted extortion charges after they allegedly threatened to shake down the popular Web site MySpace.com unless its operators paid them $150,000, prosecutors said.. Two New York teenagers were in police custody Wednesday facing illegal computer access and attempted extortion charges after they allegedly threatened to shake down the popular Web site MySpace.com unless its operators paid them $150,000, prosecutors said....

Hackers cut a deal and avoid prison in MySpace extortion case. myspace extortion plead guilty. A pair of hackers, accused of trying to extort $150,000 from the world's largest social networking site MySpace, have cut a deal with prosecutors and will avoid jail time. A pair of hackers, accused of trying to extort $150,000 from the world’s largest social networking site MySpace, have cut a deal with prosecutors and will avoid jail time. Harrison and Mondelli were accused of multiple counts of attempted extortion and pleaded no contest in exchange for probation and a host of other restrictions....

Botnets have previously been used to send spam or extort money from websites. In the past, hackers have successfully extorted money by demanding money from popular websites in return for not flooding the site with traffic. In another recent case, the Million Dollar homepage - a webpage that makes money by selling pixels on the page - was temporally knocked off the Internet after the site owner balked at paying an extortion demand....

The hacker who published 25,000 stolen credit card numbers after a failed extortion attempt says he will release more card numbers. The hacker who published 25,000 stolen credit card numbers after a failed extortion attempt says he will release more card numbers....

A federal judge ruled Monday that a California company can send "pop-up" Internet ads that regulators have called "high-tech extortion"-at least until the matter is decided at trial. A federal judge ruled Monday that a California company can send "pop-up" Internet ads that regulators have called "high-tech extortion"-at least until the matter is decided at trial....

A US man has been charged with extortion after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google - according to court papers he claimed that if they did not pay, he would release a piece of software to spammers to generate fake advertising hits and cost them millions. A US man has been charged with extortion after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google - according to court papers he claimed that if they did not pay, he would release a piece of software to spammers to generate fake advertising hits and cost them millions....

His brother then used the information to burgle one victim and attempted to extort money from three business men. The brother had been arrested in connection with the extortion of monies from three business men in 2003....