Just last month I blogged about the new Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2008. It covers extortion. I’m interested to see if it gets used for the latest extortion attempt…

“Express Scripts gets extortion threat: The prescription benefit company says someone is demanding money by threatening to expose records of millions of patients.”

Tags: awareness and training, cybercrime, Express Scripts, extortion, identity theft, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, personally identifiable information, PII, policies and procedures, privacy training, risk management, security training

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