Extorted deliberate act

"Extorted deliberate act"

Hacker or trusted insider steals information and demands compensation for its return.

 

Extortion is a crime that consists of forcing a person, through the use of violence or intimidation, to make or omit a legal act or legal business with profit motive and with the intention of producing an injury of a patrimonial nature or of the passive subject.

"types of computer extortion"

cybernetic extortion:

Hackers take over computers, send rescue notes in local language and users pay for them.

Hackers take over computers, send rescue notes in local language and users pay for them. "It's the new Nigerian scam," say the specialists.

For example: 

* theft of data files containing customer credit card information...

  *Blocking the personal computer on request of economic rescue.

*Blocking personal accounts

 in different social networks.

                             “computer blackmail”
It is a malicious computer program that infects and blocks
 files and computer systems and asks for financial compensatio
in exchange for releasing them. 
 


For example:
-Hacker accessing a system and damaging or destroying critical
data. 
-theft of the database .
-access to credit card.
-theft in advertisements of commercial promotions.