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

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

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"If during tomorrow they do not raise the price, we will release all the data," the group added, the posts read.

Chats appear to show the police department making a final offer of "$100,000 to prevent the release of stolen data."

"This is unacceptable from our side," the ransomware actor responds.

The Metropolitan Police Department did not respond to a CNN request for comment.

Ransomware groups do not typically post transcripts of the negotiations, according to Brett Callow, a threat analyst at the security firm Emsisoft, who said it's unclear why they chose to do so in this case.

"MPD is not the first department to have had its data exfiltrated, but the fact that the group is threatening to release details about informants to the gangs on which they're informing makes this incident the most serious by far," he said.

Last month, the attackers posted a ransom note claiming they had stolen more than 250 GB of data and threatened to publish the material if they were not paid. The ransomware group Babuk claimed credit for the attack, posting screenshots of the note that were flagged by cybersecurity researchers.

[Titus-Maximus]

Because the CIA is spending too much time building gender neutral bathrooms.

They should be all over this...

[Thank You Rush]

“”If our CIA was so concerned about hiring transvestites””

Don’t you mean “wasn’t” so concerned?

[lepton]

Or how he managed to run White House security, without ever being hired.