extort

Ransomware group Akira tapped an unprotected webcam to get around one organization’s network-security systems and extort it, S-RM reported last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

ShinyHunters first demanded that the bureau amend a public service announcement accusing the group of using “harassment strategies” and “pressure tactics” to extort victims.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Netflix’s statement that Mr. Afram and his attorneys attempted to extort money from Netflix is entirely false, as are the purported facts on which Netflix based this false statement,” according to his amended lawsuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Four Nigerian policeman, accused of setting up an illegal checkpoint to extort money from drivers, picked on the wrong man: the head of one of the country's anti-corruption agencies.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

He was a proud and independent man who was opposed to unemployment insurance and never hesitated to whine, whimper, wheedle, and extort for as much as he could get from whomever he could.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“Landmark extorts small businesses, demanding payment for webpages that are essential for running a business,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement Thursday.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2021

The main perk of being the bid’s junior partner is that we won’t be on the hook for the full array of infrastructural follies Fifa normally extorts from the host.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017

“But they make sure that nobody robs, nobody extorts, nobody kidnaps. They don’t mess with the people here.”

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2015

He believes this pressure to be friendly is caused by “unequal economic power that extorts emotional work.”

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2014

Shakespeare gives to Richard therefore a power which excites astonishment, and a courage which extorts admiration.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

A New York woman admitted to defrauding Wesley Edens, a co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, resolving allegations that she had extorted the billionaire and swindled two other men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

He has filed meritless lawsuits against media companies and social media platforms and extorted large monetary settlements.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

"It is the regulator who will be the fans' best hope for producing a system whereby they are not extorted," Fynn said.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

The relationships, Canter said, make Ernst vulnerable to being extorted if people learned of them and could give someone undue influence over her.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

The zealous Imbert then proceeded to Bayeux, Metz, Toul, and Verdun; in all which places examinations were held and confessions extorted in the same way.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

There is an active restraining order and lawsuit against Seaver by Parton’s company, She’s Alive LLC, which is run by Parton’s former manager, Danny Nozell, for allegedly threatening and extorting her estate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

But her political career ended when her husband, Bill Collins, a dentist and businessman, was convicted in 1993 of extorting money from people who had business before the state while his wife was governor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

A federal court in St. Louis has indicted 14 North Koreans for allegedly being part of a long-running conspiracy aimed at extorting funds from US companies and funneling money to Pyongyang's weapons programmes.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2024

Cohen acknowledged once telling a prosecutor he felt that Daniels and her lawyer were extorting Trump.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024

“You would think,” Skarpi’s voice rolled out like thick honey, “fine churchmen such as yourselves could find better things to do than arresting storytellers and extorting money from honest men.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss