The state comptroller’s office is warning current and former government workers using New York’s public retirement system to be vigilant when logging into the online site after reports of a potential cyber threat.

The Attorney General's office said it has received several reports of emails asking people to pay a fee using cryptocurrency to stop the sender from releasing embarrassing information.

The Attorney General’s Office is warning New Hampshire residents of a blackmail scam targeting older residents and others in the Granite State.

In blackmail scam, the sender threatens embarrassing information will be sent to the recipient’s contacts unless recipient pays a “privacy fee."

A blackmail scam is targeting New Hampshire residents, with scammers threatening to send “embarrassing information” to the victim’s contacts unless they pay them, the attorney general warned Monday.