A British man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to U.S. charges alleging that he and co-conspirators in an international hacking group called The Dark Overlord stole data from health care and accounting companies in Missouri, Illinois and Georgia and threatened to release the information unless they paid a ransom.
Nathan Francis Wyatt, 38, was charged in federal court with conspiracy, two counts of aggravated identity theft and three counts of threatening to damage a protected computer.
The indictment does not name the companies that were allegedly attacked, nor the names of Wyatt's co-conspirators.