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Rogue IT worker extorted company after hijacking ransomware attack

2 pointsby Beggers1960almost 2 years ago

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Beggers1960almost 2 years ago
&quot;...unknown to the police, his colleagues, and his employer, Liles commenced a separate and secondary attack against the company.<p>&quot;Liles accessed board members’ private emails more than 300 times and altered the original ransom note to change the payment address to his own cryptocurrency wallet.&quot;<p>Yikes, talk about creating trust issues. Charged with helping investigate and remediate and then capitalises on the situation to extort their employer.