Ransomware group follows through on threat to release personnel files of DC police officers

CNN ^ | May 11, 2021 | Zachary Cohen and Geneva Sands

[steve8714]

Pay in Bitcoin, steal it back.

[Hambone 1934]

After all the breaches the last 10 years,you would think people with sensitive info would be more vigilant than the guy sitting at home at his desk .........

[Titus-Maximus]

If our CIA was so concerned about hiring transvestites then maybe we could put up a defense against these attacks.

[BobL]

Idiots don’t know that the police are defunded in American cities.

[Baldwin]

Hmm, so this is a bunch of left wing insurrectionist attacking the infrastructure of the United Sates. I am sure the FBI is right on it. I wonder how much of the ransomware goes upstairs to the big guy.

[frank ballenger]

Pay in United States cash. Meaning, worth 40% less next week after inflation runs away.

Or pay in George Floyd’s old suitcase of counterfeit currency. They may not notice.

[Little Ray]

You would think that every system that didn’t require remote access would be ‘air-gapped’ from the internet.

[zeestephen]

Newt Gingrich has the right plan....

Hunt these hackers down - and kill them.

[mountainlion]

China stole personell files of over 22M and no cared.

[SaxxonWoods]

And the best investigators on the planet with all the latest technology for surveillance can’t find ANY of these people, including the ones who shut down almost half the gasoline supply in America.

But they can find fake crimes by Republicans all the time.

[Steve_Seattle]

"If our CIA was so concerned about hiring transvestites then maybe we could put up a defense against these attacks."

I've been saying for years that you never hear the issue of cyber security brought up in presidential debates. It's a major problem that affects just about everyone, but it never seems to be a priority. In this day and age, how is it possible that our intelligence agencies could not track down the source of ransomware and put a stop to it? Not only the DC case, but the one affecting the power company.

[Red Badger]

I wondered where Craig Livingstone went....................

[George from New England]

You can be sure there is a special locker of lead the men in blue have set aside for these sleaze balls.

[vetvetdoug]

If the line police officers are anything like their leadership there in D.C. then I have no sympathy for the D.C. Police Department. Let the hidden truths fly!

[cicero2k]

Watch your System Administrators. Don’t blindly assume they are honest. Everything else is fake, so are some of them.

[Toespi]

Sounds like BLM to me.

[euram]

Meanwhile, the CIA and FBI were either out recruiting tans, gays, lesbians, and mentally ill Latinas. If they weren’t doing that they were spying on Trump and his voters. Much too busy to actually protect the country.

[AppyPappy]

Unfortunately, the FBI and Congress are fixated on Jan 6 so they don’t have time for this.

[pepsi_junkie]

This will continue until special forces raid some of these places and fill the ransom demanders with lead in as loud and visible way as possible. If it’s coming from state actors then it’s war. We cannot allow anyone to shut down critical infrastructure or make terroristic threats with impunity, or worse, to profit from doing it.