Security News > 2020 > June > Ransomware crims to sell off 'scandalous' files swiped from Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Puff Daddy's legal eagles

Ransomware criminals claiming to have siphoned confidential docs on Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey, and Lebron James from an American law firm are threatening to auction off the info.

The REvil ransomware gang declared it will sell off troves of the paperwork, which it said it exfiltrated from the computer systems of American showbiz lawyer Allen Grubman.

Unspecified stolen data about chanteuses Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey, along with basketball ace Lebron James, will be up for auction on July 1, with a reserve price of $600,000, according to a statement posted to the crew's Tor-hidden blog seen by The Register.

The auction will be followed by a second tranche on July 3 of files concerning Universal Studios, Puff Daddy's* music label Bad Boy Records' holding company, and MTV, it is claimed.

Elexon had shrugged off the gang's ransomware infection, rebuilding from backups and seemingly refusing to engage with the criminals.

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