The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of the District of Columbia has become the latest high-profile government agency to fall victim to a ransomware attack. The Babuk Locker gang claimed in a post on the dark web that they had compromised the DC Police’s networks and stolen 250 GB of unencrypted files. The gang has given the department three days to heed to their ransom demand or risk leaking sensitive files that could expose police informants to criminal gangs. The group has targeted transportation, healthcare, plastic, electronics, and agricultural sectors across the U.S., U.K., China, India, South Africa, Spain, Germany, and Italy.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/hackers-threaten-to-leak-dc-police.html