Received this mail: PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO SOMEONE IN YOUR COMPANY WHO IS ALLOWED TO MAKE IMPORTANT DECISIONS! We have hacked your website *** and extracted your databases. How did this happen? Our team has found a vulnerability within your site that we were able to exploit. After finding the vulnerability we were able to get your database credentials and extract your entire database and move the information to an offshore server. What does this mean? We will systematically go through a series of steps of totally damaging your reputation. First your database will be leaked or sold to the highest bidder which they will use with whatever their intentions are. Next if there are e-mails found they will be e-mailed that their information has been sold or leaked and your site *** was at fault thusly damaging your reputation and having angry customers/associates with whatever angry customers/associates do. Lastly any links that you have indexed in the search engines will be de-indexed based off of blackhat techniques that we used in the past to de-index our targets. How do I stop this? We are willing to refrain from destroying your sites reputation for a small fee. The current fee is .33 BTC in bitcoins ($3000 USD). Send the bitcoin to the following Bitcoin address (Copy and paste as it is case sensitive): 12WghuRH7b8K7mcJvxCzWQjW7RVEAC7qgx Once you have paid we will automatically get informed that it was your payment. Please note that you have to make payment within 5 days after receiving this notice or the database leak, e-mails dispatched, and de-index of your site WILL start! How do I get Bitcoins? You can easily buy bitcoins via several websites or even offline from a Bitcoin-ATM. We suggest you https://cex.io/ for buying bitcoins. What if I don’t pay? If you decide not to pay, we will start the attack at the indicated date and uphold it until you do, there’s no counter measure to this, you will only end up wasting more money trying to find a solution...

Website hacked, databases will be leaked, pay bitcoins.

Contact form of my website was used to intimidate, however it was not hacked or altered in any way.

website hacking scam

We have hacked your website and extracted your databases. How did this happen? Our team has found a vulnerability within your site that we were able to exploit. After finding the vulnerability we were able to get your database credentials and extract your entire database and move the information to an offshore server. What does this mean? We will systematically go through a series of steps of totally damaging your reputation. First your database will be leaked or sold to the highest bidder which they will use with whatever their intentions are. Next if there are e-mails found they will be e-mailed that their information has been sold or leaked and your site was at fault thusly damaging your reputation and having angry customers/associates with whatever angry customers/associates do. Lastly any links that you have indexed in the search engines will be de-indexed based off of blackhat techniques that we used in the past to de-index our targets. How do I stop this? We are willing to refrain from destroying your sites reputation for a small fee. The current fee is .33 BTC in bitcoins ($3000 USD). Send the bitcoin to the following Bitcoin address (Copy and paste as it is case sensitive): 12WghuRH7b8K7mcJvxCzWQjW7RVEAC7qgx Once you have paid we will automatically get informed that it was your payment. Please note that you have to make payment within 5 days after receiving this notice or the database leak, e-mails dispatched, and de-index of your site WILL start! What if I don’t pay? If you decide not to pay, we will start the attack at the indicated date and uphold it until you do, there’s no counter measure to this, you will only end up wasting more money trying to find a solution. We will completely destroy your reputation amongst google and your customers. This is not a hoax, do not reply to this email, don’t try to reason or negotiate, we will not read any replies.

We have hacked your website [address] and extracted your databases. How did this happen? Our team has found a vulnerability within your site that we were able to exploit. After finding the vulnerability we were able to get your database credentials and extract your entire database and move the information to an offshore server. What does this mean? We will systematically go through a series of steps of totally damaging your reputation. First your database will be leaked or sold to the highest bidder which they will use with whatever their intentions are. Next if there are e-mails found they will be e-mailed that their information has been sold or leaked and your site [address] was at fault thusly damaging your reputation and having angry customers/associates with whatever angry customers/associates do. Lastly any links that you have indexed in the search engines will be de-indexed based off of blackhat techniques that we used in the past to de-index our targets. How do I stop this? We are willing to refrain from destroying your sites reputation for a small fee. The current fee is 0.323 BTC in bitcoins ($ 3000 USD). Send the bitcoin to the following Bitcoin address (Copy and paste as it is case sensitive): 12WghuRH7b8K7mcJvxCzWQjW7RVEAC7qgx Once you have paid we will automatically get informed that it was your payment. Please note that you have to make payment within 5 days after receiving this notice or the database leak, e-mails dispatched, and de-index of your site WILL start!

It threats to hack your website and you need to pay

claims he had hacked website and wants ransom. claim is obviously wrong.

Tries to blackmail site owner, but doesnt really have access. Its just a phishing attempt

asking for money or damaging reputation

Asking for USD 3000 (0.326 BTC) via contact form on our website. The message is nearly perfectly translated into Polish.

Asking for 3000 USD worth of btc

Ask for money to avoid send to all my email contacts scam info.

I have received an email saying that my website has been hacked and that I need to pay 3000 USD in Bitcoin to avoid them damaging my reputation.

We got your Database XXXX USD in Bitcoin or we leak it ... - text in German