{"id":11670,"date":"2026-03-28T02:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/world-leaks-data-extortion-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:03:28","slug":"world-leaks-data-extortion-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/world-leaks-data-extortion-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"World Leaks data extortion: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    World Leaks data extortion: What you need to know<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>World Leaks is a cyber extortion operation that steals sensitive data from organizations and threatens to leak it via the dark web if a ransom is not paid.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortra.com\/blog\/world-leaks-data-extortion-what-you-need-know\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Leaks data extortion: What you need to know World Leaks is a cyber extortion operation that steals sensitive data from organizations and threatens to leak it via the dark web if a ransom is not paid. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,1782,54,155,486,2397],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-11670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-extortion","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-security-threats","category-world-leaks","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}