"A typical Monday, you spend most of the morning catching up on industry reports, scheduling meetings, and reading e-mail. After answering or filing your important messages, you come across a note titled 'Customer Information', but from an unfamiliar sender. You open the message only to find a listing of your largest customers' accounts, credit, order histories, and forecasts. *** Attached to the information is a simple threat: give us cash, or this information goes public. $27,000 divided equally and deposited into three separate foreign accounts, all in a country with tenuous relations with your government, before the week's end. What do you do?"