Scammers used compromised police accounts in extortion scheme, prosecutors say

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Two men broke into a federal law enforcement database and a Bangladeshi police officer’s email account to conduct extortion schemes, U.S. law enforcement officials say. A federal court in New York [unsealed an indictment](https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-men-charged-breaching-federal-law-enforcement-database-and-posing-police-officers) Tuesday against 19-year-old Sagar Steven Singh and 25-year-old Nicholas Ceraolo, who are accused of illegally collecting personal information about specific people

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