https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/is-your-email-one-of-200-million-targeted-by-extortion-scams/

An active sextortion campaign actively targeting a large database of more than 200 million compromised email accounts has been spotted by researchers at Cofense Labs.

Extortion emails are being sent by scammer outfits either with the help of massive spam botnets or via smaller and more targeted spam campaigns.