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by indigochill
2727 days ago
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I suspect blackmail is going to see a rise as more information like this gets leaked. It goes like this: "Hi, <insert name here>. I know all about you. For instance, <insert the piece of personal information you have>. Wire me <insert large sum here> or I'll publish your browser history (or credit card statements, or anything else that sounds sufficiently compromising among some segment of the population)." Against any particular target, this may not be effective if they don't care about the leverage you claim to have or call your bluff. However, since you have a data dump you can send this to every single affected individual and you'll get at least some bites. |
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Did you receive that in an email recently? I've already deleted it, but I got almost that exact email in my spam on my junk mail account the other day. They were clearly working off of the Adobe password leak.
They quoted my old password in the email and gave the same ol', 'I will email a list of your perverted pornographic interests to your family and employer'
Like you said, they cast a wide net in hopes of catching a few fish. That being said, asking for BTC seems to really narrow the pool to folks who, I assume, would be less likely to fall for this scam.