extortion

Charges as part of that case include robbery, extortion, wire fraud, bank fraud and illegal gambling.

Huaman's employer and others in Peru are in the grips of an extortion wave that has claimed the lives of dozens of drivers, musicians and other professionals.

The charges include robbery, extortion, wire fraud, bank fraud and illegal gambling.

The court was told other messages showed he sought "banking information of European residents" and discussed kidnapping a billionaire for the purposes of extortion.

A data theft and extortion attack is far easier to recover from, for example, than a ransomware attack which scrambles a victim's computer network.