Sextortion Scam

[Joseph Molloy]

Hello everybody,

BBC reporter exposes sextortion scam which is targetting a lot of WordPress sites around the world.

The four emails I received claimed that they had hacked my router and accessed my webcam as I visited adult sites. The emails included genuine out of date LinkedIn and Adobe passwords.Fortunately, I changed my passwords after the respective breaches were reported on the media.

Check out the BBC report for more details.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-46323625/what-happened-when-sextortion-scammers-targeted-a-bbc-trending-reporter.

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[Tom Farrell]

Hello

This has been doing the rounds for a few months. 

Tom Farrell

www.careersnews.ie

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[Joseph Molloy]

Apparently, phased 2 of the scam is in full swing. The second emails increase the blackmail Bitcoin amount because the first email was not acted upon. 

[Rob]

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Hi,

I was looking into this for someone during the summer and came across this website. It can tell you if your email addresses or passwords appear on any of the breach lists that are for sale to scammers.
I have checked numerous current (I believe that the service is genuine but use at your own risk!) and older passwords None of mine appear but some information appeared from the person I was checking for that matched the scam. I was then able to reassure them that as long as they had changed their password at the time they'd be fine.
I started into my usual stern lecture about separate, secure passwords for different accounts. Unfortunately, I could see the all too familiar sight of eyes glazing over before I even got started on my system for creating memorable but ultra-secure passwords.

Regards,

Rob