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 ...

The Chippewa County Sheriff's Office is warning residents of a disturbing extortion scam that several community members have ...

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 ...

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