'You’ll never need to work again’, hacker offers BBC cyber correspondent

A hacking group has made an offer to Joe Tidy, the cyber correspondent for the British news agency BBC, as part of their attempt to hack the media outlet. They told him that if he helped them hack the BBC, he would receive so much money that "he will never have to work again”. Essentially, the hackers offered to give Tidy a share of the ransom they planned to extort by hacking the outlet. Tidy has provided the details of this incident. The BBC published the details extensively in Tidy's own words. In the BBC report, Tidy said he was given a “unique and worrying experience” of how hackers can leverage insiders. He added that he was recently propositioned by...