Rogue IT worker extorted company after hijacking ransomware attack

"...unknown to the police, his colleagues, and his employer, Liles commenced a separate and secondary attack against the company.

"Liles accessed board members’ private emails more than 300 times and altered the original ransom note to change the payment address to his own cryptocurrency wallet."

Yikes, talk about creating trust issues. Charged with helping investigate and remediate and then capitalises on the situation to extort their employer.