The Sacramento Bee reported that two of its databases, both on a third-party server, were hit with a ransomware attack in January 2017. A Bee employee discovered the attack last week following a tip from a reporter with a different organization. One affected database contained California voter registration data from the California Secretary of State. Another contained contact data for 53,000 current and former Bee subscribers who activated digital accounts before 2017. An anonymous attacker demanded a Bitcoin ransom in exchange for the data. The Bee chose not to pay and has deleted both databases to prevent further attacks.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/sacramento-bee-databases-hit-with-ransomware-attack