Paying Hacker Extortion 412
An anonymous reader writes "A friend works as CIO at a medium sized publicly traded company. The company was contacted by a hacking group and told to pay $100,000 to prevent their company from being hacked/attacked. They actually paid the extortion (told authorities after). The authorities said the company could be charged with supporting Terrorists. Seeing that most publicly known hacks are costing companies this size nearly a million dollars, Is this supporting terrorists or supporting stockholders?"
Re:everyone loses (Score:5, Interesting)
Dubious? (Score:5, Interesting)
If some kind of attribution can't be found, I call BS.
Sound Like a Money Laundering Scheme? (Score:5, Interesting)
So you say a mid-sized company paid a $100,000 extortion? That money with 'poof', right? Untraceable, right? Call me the suspicious sort but are we sure this is extortion and not embezzlement?
Cheers,
Matt
Re:everyone loses (Score:2, Interesting)
Criminal, yes. The crimes in question have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism, though.
Doesn't that depend on other facts that we don't have?
Re:And now (Score:5, Interesting)