Two members of a group of cybercriminals named ViLE were sentenced this week for hacking into a federal law enforcement web portal in an extortion scheme.

According to court documents , ViLE specializes in obtaining personal information about targets to harass, threaten, or extort them, a practice known as "doxing."

To collect sensitive information on their victims, they use methods such as tricking customer service employees, submitting fraudulent legal requests to social media companies, bribing corporate insiders, and searching public and private online databases.

"The defendants impersonated law enforcement, illegally accessed government databases, and even faked life-threatening situations to bypass criminal procedures through which they could obtain sensitive personal informatio

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