extortion attempt, the target jeff bezos founder of amazon and owner of the washington post. the alleged blackmailers, parent company of national enquirer ami. its links to the president and its role in the political climate are no secret. bezos published the shocking details, he writes i was made an offer i couldn t refuse or at least that s what the top people at the national enquirer thought. i m glad they emboldened them t it all in writing. he quotes entire e-mails accepts to his rep sent to hi. ami is the same company former trump fixer michael cohen admitted giving money for hush payments to women who claimed they had affairs with mr. trump. oliver darcy has more. reporter: it doesn t get much more explosive than this. a blog post published thursday afternoon, amazon founder jeff bezos accused the national enquirer of in his words extortion and blackmail.
blackmailer or the blackmailers didn t mind risking injuries or even death of those who received the packages. called the target the delivery firm d.h.l. included in the package was a black mail letter embedded as a q.r. code. info to whoever sent the package demanded a large sum of money if you didn t get paid he said he would send more packages ascendant. a similar package was found in early november in another city and brandenburg investigators believe the suspect may make good on his threat to deliver more dangerous parcels. well for more on this i ve got. brady in the studio with me cade it s not terrorism but it sounds like there s still a threat well there certainly is still a threat as police in front of the said today this is clearly someone who s willing
payment. so this is being fixed through alternate channels. you don t have to pay the blackmailers or the criminals to get the data. the other side of the story is fortunately while hospitals were affected and a number of targets, did not really have kinetic affects. shut down systems but did not cause any, for example, power outages or loss of life in that sense. this was an information attack, which shut down systems and locked up data, which is problematic of itself. but it does sort of raise a red flag about the potential probably a small group of individuals that are not saying that they know who yet and might take some time to cause global damage. so how do they coordinate somebody that could be this sweep something. the individuals that carried this out may not necessarily have realized how far the attacks may have ended up spreading. it s unclear who specifically the initial target may have been. then it could have been spread
universities whose identities leaked on line. the data dump showed nearly all of the subscribers are men. i am here to identify i m h.i.v. positive. it s a hard three letters to absorb. charlie sheen s revelation after the former two and a half men s star said he paid millioners to blackmailers and one of the extortion to stop. singer air air air an da grande. pop star licking unsold doughnuts and shouting she hated america on the fourth of july. she later apologized. khloe kardashian called off her divorce to the former basketball star low march odom after he nearly died during a reported bender at a brothel in nevada. odom spent weeks recovering. chloe vowed to stay by his side. other celebrity couples called it quits.
universities whose identities leaked on line. the data dump showed nearly all of the subscribers are men. i am here to identify i m h.i.v. positive. it s a hard three letters to absorb. charlie sheen s revelation after the former two and a half men s star said he paid millioners to blackmailers and one of the extortion to stop. singer air air air an da grande. pop star licking unsold doughnuts and shouting she hated america on the fourth of july. she later apologized. khloe kardashian called off her divorce to the former basketball star low march odom after he nearly died during a reported bender at a brothel in nevada. odom spent weeks recovering. chloe vowed to stay by his side. other celebrity couples called it quits. ben affleck and jennifer