All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Extortion, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
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.
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.
A small Ohio county reportedly paid a cyber extortion group $1 million to prevent the public release of sensitive stolen government data, highlighting the...
A leaked negotiation chat and blockchain analysis reveal that a U.S. government entity paid approximately $1 million to the Kairos extortion group to...
The Icarus extortion group compromised Klue, an AI-powered competitive intelligence platform, harvesting OAuth tokens to drain CRM data from hundreds of...
Nintendo of America has confirmed that approximately 1GB of employee data — including W-9 forms, bank statements, and HR survey responses — was...
The Council of Europe, Europe's oldest intergovernmental body, is probing data breach claims made by the ShinyHunters extortion group, which claimed...
Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise operator, confirms a breach affecting nearly 6M people after ShinyHunters' April 2026 extortion claim.
7-Eleven has confirmed a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen more than 600,000 Salesforce records containing personal information and...
Grafana Labs confirmed that hackers downloaded its source code after breaching its GitHub environment using a stolen access token. The attackers attempted...
Grafana has disclosed that an unauthorized party obtained a GitHub access token, used it to download the company's entire codebase, and then attempted...
Educational technology company Instructure, parent of Canvas LMS, has reached an undisclosed 'agreement' with the ShinyHunters extortion group after a...
A data extortion attack against Canvas LMS defaced login pages with a ransom demand, disrupting classes and coursework at school districts and...
ShinyHunters has struck education technology giant Instructure again, exploiting a fresh vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals across hundreds of...
A newly tracked financially motivated threat group called BlackFile has been conducting data theft and extortion campaigns against retail and hospitality...
Home security giant ADT has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to publish stolen data unless a ransom is paid,...
Angelo Martino, a former ransomware payment negotiator for DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to helping accomplish extort $75.3 million in ransom from five...
WorldLeaks extortion group claims responsibility for a data breach on Nike, allegedly exposing 1.4 terabytes of internal data including supply chain and...