Salesforce says it’s refusing to pay an extortion demand made by a crime syndicate that claims to have stolen roughly 1 billion records from dozens of Salesforce customers. The threat group making the demands began their campaign in May, when they made voice calls to organizations storing data on the Salesforce platform, Google-owned Mandiant said in June. The English-speaking callers …
Read More »Newsom blasts Trump’s $1 billion settlement proposal to UCLA as ‘extortion’ Politico Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding The New York Times Trump administration demands $1B from University of California-Los Angeles Politico Trump administration wants $1 billion settlement from UCLA over antisemitism claims ABC7 Los Angeles Trump seeks $1-billion fine against UCLA. Newsom says ‘we’ll sue,’ calling it …
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Hours after the Trump administration demanded that the University of California pay a $1-billion fine to settle federal accusations of antisemitism in exchange for restoring frozen grant funding to UCLA, Gov. Gavin Newsom called the proposal “extortion” and said the state will go to court to protect the nation’s premier university system. “We’ll sue,” Newsom said during a news conference …
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BOSTON – Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins, who serves as the Sheriff for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, has been charged with extortion involving the purchase of an equity interest in a Boston-based cannabis company. Tompkins, 67, of Boston, Mass, was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of Extortion Under Color of Official Right. He was taken …
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