Two alleged hackers from the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan have been arrested in connection with a reported blackmail attempt against financial information service provider Bloomberg. According to reports in the New York Times, a man calling himself Alex, who said he had obtained passwords of senior Bloomberg employees, contacted chief executive Michael Bloomberg in March. If extradited to the US, where the servers were breached, and convicted on all charges, the pair could be jailed for up to 20 years.
Net hacker fails in blackmail attempt.