Online gambling site Blue Square has revealed that a telephone caller threatened to send out child abuse pictures in emails in its name unless it paid €7,000. The threat followed a DDoS attack on the site. "Two sites have come under 'distributed denial of service' attacks this week, Blue Square, and William Hill. However, Blue Square then received a follow-up phone call making the child pornography threat." a spokesman for the UK's Hi-Tech Crime Unit told BBC News.
Gambling sites have proved a popular target of criminals, presumably because they handle large amounts of money, often concentrated into short periods of time around sporting events.