Babuk gang of threat actors claims to have stolen more than 250 gigabytes of data from D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. Babuk has a history of posting stolen files as a way of applying thumbscrews so victims will pay up. The MPD hasn t acknowledged that files were locked, as happens with ransomware. An MPD spokesperson acknowledged in an email sent to Threatpost that the department s systems had been breached and that it had contacted the FBI.
Source: https://threatpost.com/babuk-ransomware-washington-dc-police/165616/