Security News > 2021 > April > DC Police confirms cyberattack after ransomware gang leaks data
The Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed that they suffered a cyberattack after the Babuk ransomware gang leaked screenshots of stolen data.
The Metropolitan Police Department, also known as the DC Police or MPD, is the primary law enforcement agency for Washington, DC, the US capital.
As part of this leak, the ransomware gang posted screenshots of various folders they allegedly stole during the attack.
The folder names appear to contain a lot of files related to operations, disciplinary records, and files related to gang members and 'crews' operating in DC. The ransomware gang warned on the data leak page that the MPD has 3 days to contact them or the threat actors will start contacting gangs to warn them of police informants.
"Hello! Even an institution such as DC can be threatened, we have downloaded a sufficient amount of information from your internal networks, and we advise you to contact us as soon as possible, to prevent leakage, if no response is received within 3 days, we will start to contact gangs in order to drain the informants, we will continue to attack the state sector of the usa, fbi csa, we find 0 day before you, even larger attacks await you soon," stated the Babuk ransomware gang on their data leak site.
Update 4/26/21 9:42 PM EST: Added updated statement from the Babuk ransomware gang.