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From: <[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 16:26:01 -0600
Subject: Your domain brendinghat.com, databases and emails has been hacked.
FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO THE PERSON WITHIN YOUR COMPANY WHO MAKES THE
IMPORTANT DECISIONS
You may have noticed that we are using your company’s server to send
this message, we have hacked into your <Suspicious hyperlink> site
and extracted all of your databases and backed up all of your
mailboxes.
How did this happen?
Our team found several vulnerabilities within your website and
company computers that we were able to exploit. After finding them, we
were able to obtain their database credentials and extract their
complete data from their computers, from their site and copies of all
emails in all their mailboxes with brendinghat.com domain and finally we
moved the information to a foreign server.
What does this mean?
We will systematically go through a series of steps to totally damage
your reputation. First, your database will be leaked or sold to the
highest bidder to be used for any purpose. Next, emails will be sent
to all your customers, suppliers and business partners, stating that
all of their information has been sold or leaked and
your  <Suspicious hyperlink> site was at fault for leaking the
information and damaging the reputation of all your customers and
providers. Lastly, any links you have indexed in search engines will
be de-indexed based on the blackhat techniques we have used in the
past to de-index our targets, not to mention getting your business on
every blacklist in the country.
How do I stop this?
We are willing to forget about destroying the reputation of your site
and company for a small fee. The current fee is 2,000 (two thousand
US dollars) in Bitcoins.
Send the amount in Bitcoin to the following address:
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Once you have made your payment, we will automatically be informed of
it. At the precise moment that you have read this message, you have a
period of 72 hours to make the payment, or I guarantee that the
reputation of your company will be completely destroyed. The proof
that we have access and all your data is that this message has been
sent using your company’s servers.
How do I get Bitcoins?
You can easily buy bitcoins through various websites.
What happens if I don’t pay?
If you decide not to pay, we will launch the attack after 72 hours
and keep it until you do, there is no countermeasure to this, you will
just end up wasting more money trying to find a solution. We will
completely destroy your reputation with your customers, your suppliers
and your partners.
This is not a hoax, do not try to reason or negotiate, we will not
read any answers. Once you’ve paid, we’ll stop what we were doing,
we’ll destroy all data taken from your site, your databases, your
mailboxes, and you’ll never hear from us again.
Keep in mind that the payment with Bitcoin is anonymous and no one
will know that you have complied. The time is running.