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#Extortion

All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Extortion, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.

  • NewsJul 17, 2026

    Abbott Laboratories Probes Two Cyber Incidents Amid Extortion Claims

    Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate cybersecurity incidents: confirmed unauthorized access to legacy Exact Sciences systems in its Cancer Diagnostics unit, and a separate claim of a breach of its LabCentral portal with extortion threats.

  • NewsJul 13, 2026

    Centers Laboratory Data Breach Affects 540,000 Individuals

    The WorldLeaks extortion group claims to have stolen 720 GB of data from Centers Laboratory, a healthcare testing and laboratory services provider, exposing sensitive records of over 540,000 individuals.

  • NewsJul 7, 2026

    County Government Reportedly Paid $1 Million to Cyber Extortion Group

    A small Ohio county reportedly paid a cyber extortion group $1 million to prevent the public release of sensitive stolen government data, highlighting the...

  • NewsJul 4, 2026

    U.S. Government Entity Paid Kairos $1 Million in Data-Theft Extortion Case

    A leaked negotiation chat and blockchain analysis reveal that a U.S. government entity paid approximately $1 million to the Kairos extortion group to...

  • NewsJun 23, 2026

    LastPass Confirms Data Breach in Klue Supply Chain Attack

    The Icarus extortion group compromised Klue, an AI-powered competitive intelligence platform, harvesting OAuth tokens to drain CRM data from hundreds of...

  • NewsJun 21, 2026

    Nintendo Confirms Employee Data Stolen in TinyPulse Cyberattack by Shadowbyt3$

    Nintendo of America has confirmed that approximately 1GB of employee data — including W-9 forms, bank statements, and HR survey responses — was...

  • NewsJun 15, 2026

    Council of Europe Investigates ShinyHunters Data Breach Claims

    The Council of Europe, Europe's oldest intergovernmental body, is probing data breach claims made by the ShinyHunters extortion group, which claimed...

  • NewsMay 28, 2026

    Carnival Cruise Confirms Data Breach Affecting Nearly 6 Million People

    Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise operator, confirms a breach affecting nearly 6M people after ShinyHunters' April 2026 extortion claim.

  • NewsMay 18, 2026

    7-Eleven Data Breach Confirmed After ShinyHunters Ransom

    7-Eleven has confirmed a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen more than 600,000 Salesforce records containing personal information and...

  • NewsMay 18, 2026

    Grafana Says Stolen GitHub Token Let Hackers Steal Codebase

    Grafana Labs confirmed that hackers downloaded its source code after breaching its GitHub environment using a stolen access token. The attackers attempted...

  • NewsMay 17, 2026

    Grafana GitHub Token Breach Led to Codebase Download and Extortion Attempt

    Grafana has disclosed that an unauthorized party obtained a GitHub access token, used it to download the company's entire codebase, and then attempted...

  • NewsMay 12, 2026

    Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65 TB Canvas Leak

    Educational technology company Instructure, parent of Canvas LMS, has reached an undisclosed 'agreement' with the ShinyHunters extortion group after a...

  • NewsMay 10, 2026

    Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

    A data extortion attack against Canvas LMS defaced login pages with a ransom demand, disrupting classes and coursework at school districts and...

  • NewsMay 10, 2026

    Canvas Login Portals Hacked in Mass ShinyHunters Extortion

    ShinyHunters has struck education technology giant Instructure again, exploiting a fresh vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals across hundreds of...

  • NewsApr 25, 2026

    New BlackFile Extortion Group Linked to Surge of Vishing

    A newly tracked financially motivated threat group called BlackFile has been conducting data theft and extortion campaigns against retail and hospitality...

  • NewsApr 24, 2026

    ADT Confirms Data Breach After ShinyHunters Leak Threat

    Home security giant ADT has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to publish stolen data unless a ransom is paid,...

  • NewsApr 21, 2026

    Former DigitalMint Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to $75.3M Extortion Scheme

    Angelo Martino, a former ransomware payment negotiator for DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to helping accomplish extort $75.3 million in ransom from five...

  • NewsJan 23, 2026

    Nike Hit by Data Breach: 1.4 TB of Supply Chain Data Leaked

    WorldLeaks extortion group claims responsibility for a data breach on Nike, allegedly exposing 1.4 terabytes of internal data including supply chain and...