Firm offers $1m bounty to put extortionists behind bars

2008-11-24

John Leyden, The Register, is reporting that a US-based prescription processing and benefits firm, Express Scripts, is offering a $1 million bounty for information leading to the arrest of cyber criminals that blackmailed them.

The article states that Express Scripts publicly announced that they received personal details belonging to 75 end users that included prescription data. The cyber criminals threatened to expose millions of records unless the firm paid them.

Leyden writes, "The cyber extortionists responded to a refusal to pay up by moving onto the customers of Express Scripts with similar threats, sent in letters to these various organizations. Express Scripts responded by upping the ante and offering $1m reward for information that put the unidentified miscreants behind bars."

Express Scripts is currently working with the FBI, and the details behind the cause of the breach are still unknown. To read the full article, go here.