Online service foils ransom plot
Jane Wakefield writes in the BBC Technology News:
Monday 23 August 2004 was a normal day in the office for Asif Malik, security director of online payment firm Nochex.
That is until an e-mail popped into his inbox at 7pm when most of his colleagues had gone home for the night.
The e-mail was a ransom note offering a stark choice - immediately send a wire for $10,000 to a European bank account or face an attack on the company's servers.
Others may have panicked but such a note was not out of the ordinary for Mr Malik.
"We get quite a few, maybe once a month so we don't always take it too seriously," he said.
posted by Fergie @ 6/01/2005 05:49:00 AM
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