Business & Tech Hacking Outfit Demands $4.5M Ransom From Reddit, Threatens to Leak 80GB of Confidential Data A ransomware group known as BlackCat or ALPHV is reportedly trying to extort $4.5 million from Reddit, and they have glommed on to the recent user controversy and boycott over recently announced pricing for Reddit's API.
SF News City of Oakland Employees Launch Class Action Lawsuit Over Ransomware Attack Furious that gobs of their personal data are now available on the dark web, some Oakland employees are suing the city in a class action lawsuit over the February ransomware attack that hobbled the city’s IT systems.
SF News The Oakland Ransomware Attack Files Have Been Leaked The hacker group taking responsibility for the ransomware attack on the City of Oakland has leaked their first batch of files, leaving city employees’ personal data potentially exposed while the hack continues to cripple city systems.
SF News Hackers In Ransomware Attack Plan to Release City of Oakland Employee Info, and More The City of Oakland, it looks like, opted not to pay any ransom to a hacker group that succeeded in hobbling multiple city systems, and that group is now planning to make good on its threat to release an unknown amount of sensitive data.
SF News Ransomware Attack On City of Oakland Leaves City Hall Closed, Many Systems Still Paralyzed A ransomware attack on the City of Oakland is now dragging into its sixth day, and the city’s IT department “has taken affected systems offline” to try to minimize the damage.
SF News BART Police Files Reportedly Leaked By Hackers, Now On Dark Web Numerous news organizations are reporting that BART police files have been hacked and posted onto the dark web, including allegations of child abuse against officers, and perhaps your information if you’ve ever been cited by BART Police for a crime.
SF News 49ers Forced to Notify Nearly 21,000 People That They Had Their Personal Data Obtained by Hackers The names and Social Security Numbers of nearly 21,000 people got into the wrong hands, as the 49ers quietly acknowledged in notifications to those folks that their information was breached in a February ransomware attack against the team.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Hit With Ransomware Attack, Team Financial Data Exposed The 49ers would prefer to call it a "network security incident," but team documents are now posted on the dark web, and the hackers may have plenty more breached data to expose if the 49ers don’t pay up.
SF News Malware Stolen From The NSA Cripples Computers In 74 Countries (And Counting) #WannaCry #ransomware used in widespread attacks all over the world via @Securelist https://t.co/zh012F9lCC pic.twitter.com/UzJVqUwbT6— Kaspersky Lab (@kaspersky) May 12, 2017 Ransomware leaked by hackers and stolen originally
