extort

Asos users across the UK have been sent pop-up messages from its app that appear to have been sent by hackers trying to extort the company.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

Dolly Parton’s longtime business manager has accused her nephew and former head of security of making threats in an attempt to extort money from the late singer’s estate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

He could always extort a day or two in class from them with the free weekly pizza.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

“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

Lorenzo! pardon what my love extorts, 540 An honest love, and not afraid to frown.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

After $1.7 million in payments, prosecutors said Hastert stopped giving the man money in late 2014 after authorities, aware of suspicious bank withdrawals, approached the former speaker to investigate whether he was being extorted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

The court found that the girl’s mother extorted thousands of dollars from Franco.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Police said the case first came to their attention in mid-June, when they learned that an abbot in Bangkok had suddenly left the monkhood after being extorted by a woman.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025

At the summit we are in the centre of the magnificent panorama of mountains—glowing now with autumnal crimson and gold—which extorted from Henry Clay the declaration that he had "never beheld anything so beautiful."

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

This could be for a variety of reasons, such as extorting money from them, to spark up a romance, or simply for their own satisfaction.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 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

He denied threatening or extorting anyone, the detective said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

They were a drain on the economy, extorting money from even the lowest earners, and forcing businesses that can’t or won’t pay to close.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 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