Posted on 05/13/2021 1:29:11 PM PDT by dynachrome
A cyber gang on Thursday released data stolen from the Metropolitan Police Department after the agency refused to pay a $4 million ransom, according to a local news outlet.
The Babuk ransomware group is said to have posted information related to crimes, investigations, daily intelligence briefings, hiring, leave requests and officer reinstatement, DCist reported.
“We publish the full data of the police department, including HR, Gang Database, you will find a full range of all data in the amount of 250GB in all parts, this is an indicator of why we should pay, the police also wanted to pay us, but the amount turned out to be too small. look at this wall of shame, you have every chance of not getting there, just pay us!” the hackers reportedly wrote on the dark web.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Randomware folks are good targets for lynchings.
Let hackers dangle.
Well let’s see what they have to hide.
Babuk ransomware group sez it is on the darkweb
Back in the day with a defense contractor, the information was on a dedicated network not tied to anything else. If we needed to transfer unclassified data from it to an unclassified system, it had to go through two sets of reviewers plus security. What a royal pain in the rear. But in my 20+ years of doing this, we never had a security breach. I miss those days.
Maybe it will be easier to track them down that way.
And even if it isn’t, they should have a press conference and hire some actors to parade off to jail and announce how they tracked them down by bitcoin traffic AND MORE IMPORTANTLY by tracking the information that they released.
Do that every couple of months.
It’s not like they don’t ALREADY make up sh!t.
At the same time announce a million dollar reward NO QUESTIONS ASKED and AMNESTY for any hacker that reveals others.
Motivation is everything.
Quick someone pull up the Seth Rich police file...
The NSA/CIA/US deep state demand “back doors” to all US tech and software systems. Snowden leaked mentioned this, and Glen Greenwald wrote a book about this.
My guess is - Others have found, and continue to find such ‘back doors,’ particularly foreign intelligence services, and have let this information, by one way or another, be used by groups associated with them, or let it leak to criminal organizations.
Does anyone actually think that the NSA does not know who these hackers are?
“Hackers air stolen”
The case is moot. Someone has probably already breathed it and exhaled.
Except that they are generally located in foreign countries and under the protection of the local Government - as long as they keep up the required bribery payments.
There is always the possibility they can be outbid, or otherwise lose their protectors.
I am thinking of 2016 when Trump was trolling Hillary and the Democrats saying “Putin, release the emails”.
Might be time for the hackers of the world to start dumping everything they got. Too much tomfoolery in the world right now. A lot of people need to be taken down a few pegs.
“There is always the possibility they can be outbid, or otherwise lose their protectors.”
Or get visit from uncle Vido who just loves them to death. Especially the death part.
I say treat hackers like this as enemy combatants and send them to Gitmo for an extended vacation...without access to computers.
Wow...So much for their on-going investigations.
we need to get back to dedicated networks with no access to the internet for critical systems and critical information.
We need nation death sentence laws for hackers and ransom ware terrorists. Hunt them down, kill them,
any new info about police atrocities
committed on Jan 6
would be welcome
Thanks. Got a hot link to their postings/blog? My darkweb search engine has gone on the blink again.
Wasn’t Assam Soleimani an Iranian hacker? /
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