Media: U.S. police data leaked online after refusal to pay $4 million in Bitcoins

The Babuk Locker ransomware creators published 22 files containing personal data of officers from the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department online after ransom negotiations allegedly stalled. According to BleepingComputer.

They claimed that they demanded $4 million in Bitcoin, and the police department reduced the amount to $100,000.

Data: BleepingComputer.

The publication BleepingComputer could not independently verify whether the district police offered to pay any ransom. In the department itself, officials speculated that negotiations with the hackers were conducted by FBI agents or a third-party specialist service.

Negotiations have stalled; the proposed amount does not satisfy us. We will publish 20 more officers’ personal files. If they do not raise the price within a day, we will publish the remaining data,

According to documents, police officers are subjected to checks, including on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and MySpace.

Data: Telegram channel “Information Leaks”.

The first portion of the metropolitan police’s files was posted at the end of April, but they were later removed. They contained senior officers’ personal files, including home addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers (SSNs), mobile numbers, polygraph test results and scans of driver’s licenses.

Data: Telegram channel “Information Leaks”.

In March they stole more than 700 GB of data from the American military contractor PDI Group.

In April, the ransomware operators attacked the metropolitan police department, stealing 250 GB of data. They demanded a ransom, threatening to expose law enforcement informants.

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