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Some quick digging around: not much to be found on the wallet addresses on the extortion letters. One wallet was tied to a 0.001 transaction on 6/27.

wallet: 17gt1BancvtnnJwy4BA41VBUH3pfbUvzE block: 308079

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Even if money goes in, you can't be assured someone didn't just deposit it for the lolz, or if it was the perpetrators just moving their own coin around.

Can't coinbase just ban whatever id was presented in the letter?

See also "joe job", "reputation attack", and "denial of service".

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