A scary email claims hackers stole your data and want Bitcoin. Here’s why it’s a scam, how it works and what to do right now.

Customers of restaurants using the HungerRush point-of-sale (POS) platform say they received emails from a threat actor attempting to extort the company, warning that restaurant and customer data ...

Several Randolph School faculty members are being targeted by a person running an internet fraud scheme, according to the ...

SOLON, Ohio (WJW) – Police are warning parents about a scam targeting teenagers on social media platforms after a devious plot to extort money from a 16-year-old boy was thwarted earlier this month.

According to letters sent to parents, the school dismissed to review a safety concern related to a financial extortion scam ...

Randolph School closed on Thursday while looking into a reported financial extortion scam.

A private school in north Alabama closed Thursday due to what it described as a “financial extortion scam” targeting a faculty member. Randolph School dismissed students “out of an abundance of ...

BEREA, Ohio -- A Berea resident lost $200 -- but could have lost more -- through a sexual extortion scam that he reported Jan. 23. The man told police that he was chatting on various social media ...

The clergymen were arrested by a police team said to be directly under the Commissioner of Police Adebowale Lawal and led by one Inspector Sunday Aluko on February 11, 2026, at Saint Paul Anglican ...

Immigration documents obtained by CBC News give new insight into a cross-Canada network of individuals believed to be responsible for a wave of extortion attacks plaguing Canadian communities. Details ...

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