https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw79k5/hacker-group-threatens-dump-911-insurance-files-dark-overlord
By Joseph Cox
Motherboard.vice.com
Dec 31 2018
On Monday, New Year's Eve, a hacker group announced it had breached a law
firm handling cases related to the September 11 attacks, and threatened to
publicly release a large cache of related internal files unless their
ransom demands were met.
The news is the latest public extortion attempt from the group known as
The Dark Overlord, which has previously targeted a production studio
working for Netflix, as well as a host of medical centres and private
businesses across the United States. The announcement also signals a
slight evolution in The Dark Overlord's strategy, which has expanded on
leveraging the media to exert pressure on victims, to now distributing its
threats and stolen data in a wider fashion.
In its announcement published on Pastebin, The Dark Overlord points to
several different insurers and legal firms, claiming specifically that it
hacked Hiscox Syndicates Ltd, Lloyds of London, and Silverstein
Properties.
"Hiscox Syndicates Ltd and Lloyds of London are some of the biggest
insurers on the planet insuring everything from the smallest policies to
some of the largest policies on the planet, and who even insured
structures such as the World Trade Centers," the announcement reads.
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