Held to ransom

As our offline and online worlds collide, cyber extortion is a real threat today

Nikita Puri  September 17, 2016 Last Updated at 00:30 IST

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Earlier this year, a young woman "checked into" Facebook and put up details of the hotel she was vacationing at. Not long after that, her father received an email demanding a hefty ransom. He was told that the hotel's security feed had been hacked into and unless the ransom, running into a couple of lakhs, was paid, an "intimate video" of his daughter would be uploaded online. The father, CEO of a multinational company in India, ended up paying the money. In another instance, a Delhi-based industrialist found all the data on his computer locked. He couldn't ...

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Held to ransom