Google says hackers are sending extortion emails to executives

Alphabet’s Google said hackers are sending extortion emails to an unspecified number of executives, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle business applications.

In a statement, Google said a group claiming affiliation with the ransomware gang cl0p was sending emails to “executives at numerous organizations claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle E-Business Suite.

Google cautioned that it “does not currently have sufficient evidence to definitively assess the veracity of these claims.”