Authorities arrested a hacker in Purmerend, Netherlands on accusations that he
stole data on hundreds of thousands of customers from a company then tried to
blackmail the firm by threatening to publish the information.
stole data on hundreds of thousands of customers from a company then tried to
blackmail the firm by threatening to publish the information.
Theft of information from computer systems usually follows ransomware attacks,
but criminals sometimes only try to exfiltrate data. According to the police
press release, the attacker hit a Haarlem-based company, stealing information on
hundreds of thousands of customers.
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