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Did Hackers Blackmail a Best Buy Employee Into Facilitating a PS5 Shoplifting Spree?

  • Michael Kan--PCMag.com
  • published date: 2026-01-27 18:41:40 UTC

A 20-year-old Best Buy worker says hackers threatened to leak nudes unless he let a group steal $40,000 worth of merchandise from a store in Savannah. Local police appear skeptical. In an unusual case, a Best Buy employee claims that a hacking group blackmail…

In an unusual case, a Best Buy employee claims that a hacking group blackmailed him into allowing customers to shoplift over 40 PlayStation 5s from his store in Savannah, Georgia.  The 20-year-old e… [+1572 chars]