Players' managers looking to lift salaries by a couple of million pounds or so better check their email read receipts: a full week after Manchester United was hit by hackers, many of its systems remain offline, with at least one report claiming the club is being shaken down for ransom.
The malware hit the New York Stock Exchange-listed football business last Friday and it confirmed the attack that night.
Today, scare-mongering UK national paper the Daily Mail claimed this was because the club was actually being held to ransom. "United's network has been infected by ransomware – a computer virus – and they now face the option of having to pay up or risk seeing highly sensitive information about the club and its stars leaked into the public domain," said the newspaper in this ..
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
