November 21, 2015

Extortionists Are Threatening To Release Patreon User Data

CUWSmg-UkAEhWGZ Cartoonist Steve Streza posted a tweet claiming that an extortionist would release his "tax id, tax forms, SSN, [and] DOB" if he did not pay one bitcoin to a certain bitcoin wallet. The extortion is quite ham-handed – there's no way to confirm payment, for example and it's not clear how much of the data was actually leaked in a recent Patreon. A Patreon… Read More

Source: TechCrunch