A man who threatened to leak details of one million Sky customers after he was sacked by the telecommunications giant has been jailed.
Born-again Christian Imoudu Chaba, 37, hacked into a former colleague’s hard-drive so he could extract confidential details of customers on to his own computer as part of plan to sabotage Sky’s share price.
During the extortion plot, Chaba wrote to the then CEO Jeremy Darroch threatening to leak all the information on the dark web and also report the hack to Sky Box Office and Disney unless he was paid a £45,000 ransom in Bitcoin.
When Sky refused to respond to Chaba’s demands, he targeted individual customers whose details he had hacked and sent them letters demanding cash along with pictures of their homes with sinister photos of “V for Vendetta” or Guy Fawkes masks.
A pensioner who received a ransom letter was ordered to pay £500 to stop his details being disseminated and was warned: ‘At the age of 68 you don’t want Sky to give you all this stress.’