Men used stolen police password to access personal info, extort victims, US feds say

The men collected people’s personal information from the database, including names, addresses, phone numbers, US social security numbers and email addresses and posted it, or threatened to post it, on a website administered by another member of the group, according to a March 14 news release. — dpa

Two men belonging to an online group called “ViLE” used a police officer’s stolen password to access a law enforcement intelligence database and take people’s personal information to try to extort them, according to federal prosecutors in New York.

The men collected people’s personal information from the database, including names, addresses, phone numbers, US social security numbers and email addresses and posted it, or threatened to post it, on a website administered by another member of the group, according to a March 14 news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.