The firm said a criminal group is attempting to extort it over limited insider-related data access incidents affecting about 2,000 accounts. Kraken says it will not pay and is working with law enforcement.

Agency reports 100 extortion-related disclosures to law enforcement since the start of the year, more than the past two years combined

Chihuahua state police investigators have made an arrest in connection with an arson attack that injured five people when extortionists set fire to a small mom-and-pop grocery shop in Juárez. Investigators with the anti-extortion unit arrested 38-year-old Edwin R.

The Alabama Supreme Court appointed a Madison County circuit judge this month to preside over the felony extortion case against a former Morgan County Jail corrections officer after two local

OTTAWA — Canada’s financial intelligence agency will report Thursday that extortion is soaring, with a growing number of those crimes committed against Canadians of Indian or south Asian descent by criminal organizations with direct ties to that region.