Crooks hold e-businesses to ransom
Publish date: 10 November 2004
Issue Number: 1055
Diary: Legalbrief eLaw
Category: Cybercrime
Cyber crooks are holding Internet companies to ransom and making online Christmas shopping impossible for many consumers, reports The Metro.
Around 4 million online credit card payment were halted last week as hackers paralysed payment processing Web sites with distributed denial of service attacks. The criminals are aiming to extort money from the online concerns in return for halting the devastating attacks. The latest attack, suffered by Protx, which handles online payments for retailers, was described as crippling.
Full report in The Metro (UK) (8 November) is not available online
