Washington DC police department hit with Russian ransomware attack

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The group claims to have stolen more than 250 gigabytes of data from compromised police systems

A Russian-speaking ransomware group claims to have hacked the server of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department, and is threatening to share the stolen data with other criminal groups unless th...

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