The Metropolitan Police Department (also called DC Police) suffered a cyberattack where the ransomware gang breached its computer network.
- The Metropolitan Police Department suffers a cyberattack where more than 250GB of data was stolen.
- The Babuk ransomware gang posted screenshots of the stolen data and gave the police three days to contact them.
- The DC Police said that they are aware of the breached server and that the FBI is investigating it.
The Metropolitan Police Department (also called DC Police) suffered a cyberattack where the ransomware gang breached its computer network.
BleepingComputer reported that the Babuk Locker compromised the DC Police’s networks and stole more than 250GB of data.
The ransomware gang posted screenshots of several folders they allegedly stole during the attack. The folder names comprise many files connected to disciplinary records, operations, and files related to information on gang conflicts.
The Bbuk Locker gang warned on the data leak page that the police department has three days to reach them, or the threat actors will start to contact gangs to warn them of police informants.
“Hello! Even an institution such as DC can be threatened, we have downloaded a sufficient amount of information from your internal networks, and we advise you to contact us as soon as possible, to prevent leakage, if no response is received within 3 days, we will start to contact gangs in order to drain the informants, we will continue to attack the state sector of the usa, fbi csa, we find 0 day before you, even larger attacks await you soon," announced the Babuk ransomware gang on their data leak site.
The department said that they are aware of the unauthorized access on the server. They will determine the full impact and continue to review activity, and have engaged the FBI to investigate this matter fully.
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