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Police are said to have contacted the hackers, who left behind a blackmail note, and persuaded them to supply a digital key that would decrypt the hospital’s 30 infected computer servers.
RANSOMWARE ATTACK ON A HOSPITAL MAY BE FIRST EVER TO CAUSE A DEATHRHHACKETTFORTUNESEPTEMBER 18, 2020FORTUNE
If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Bois l'Hery's horses were unsound, Schwalbach's gallery was a swindle, Moessard's articles a recognised blackmail.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDET
The only possible scandal lies in the fact that Mrs. Withers paid blackmail for years.
THE WINNING CLUEJAMES HAY, JR.
He attempted to blackmail my father, as he had already done so many times, but his scheme was frustrated.
THE CZAR'S SPYWILLIAM LE QUEUX
All the American press is not founded upon this system of virtual blackmail.
AS A CHINAMAN SAW USANONYMOUS
I can't afford to advertise in his vile sheet; it's blackmail; money wasted—thrown away.
DOMINIE DEANELLIS PARKER BUTLER
What this particular "lady" is to the "gentleman" we don't know, but it sounds very much like blackmail.
SEEING THINGS AT NIGHTHEYWOOD BROUN
It seemed puzzling, because you wouldn't think of him as a likely subject for blackmail.
Every now and then you would read in the paper how some woman had been arrested for attempting to blackmail him in his office.
WORDS RELATED TO BLACKMAIL
- allurement
- bait
- blackmail
- buyoff
- compensation
- contract
- corrupt money
- corrupting gift
- enticement
- envelope
- feedbag
- fringe benefit
- gift
- goody
- graft
- gratuity
- gravy
- grease
- hush money
- ice
- incentive
- inducement
- influence peddling
- kickback
- lagniappe
- lure
- payola
- perk
- perquisite
- present
- price
- protection
- remuneration
- reward
- sop
- sweetener
- take
- apply
- bear down
- bear hard on
- bind
- blackmail
- bring pressure to bear upon
- burden
- cause
- charge
- choke
- coerce
- command
- compel
- concuss
- conscript
- constrain
- contract
- demand
- draft
- drag
- dragoon
- drive
- enforce
- enjoin
- exact
- extort
- fix
- impel
- impose
- impress
- inflict
- insist
- limit
- make
- move
- necessitate
- oblige
- obtrude
- occasion
- order
- overcome
- pin down
- press
- pressure
- pressurize
- put screws to
- put squeeze on
- require
- restrict
- sandbag
- shotgun
- strong-arm
- urge
- wrest
- wring
- apply
- bear down
- bear hard on
- bind
- blackmail
- bring pressure to bear upon
- burden
- cause
- charge
- choke
- coerce
- command
- compel
- concuss
- conscript
- constrain
- contract
- demand
- draft
- drag
- dragoon
- drive
- enforce
- enjoin
- exact
- extort
- fix
- impel
- impose
- impress
- inflict
- insist
- limit
- make
- move
- necessitate
- oblige
- obtrude
- occasion
- order
- overcome
- pin down
- press
- pressure
- pressurize
- put screws to
- put squeeze on
- require
- restrict
- sandbag
- shotgun
- strong-arm
- urge
- wrest
- wring
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.