Hackers extort crypto from Flink customers after major data breach
- —Hackers demand €10–15 in crypto from customers, deadline October 2
- —They ask Flink for 100 ETH (about €238,000) to delete all stolen data
- —Hackers claim data of 1 million customers and 13,000 employees was stolen
- —Flink confirmed names, addresses and phone numbers were exposed, but not passwords or payment data
Why it matters: Directly extorting individual consumers via crypto is a new attack vector that could spread to other services.
Source: Newsbit