DC Metropolitan Police Department

DC Metropolitan Police Department was affected by a cyber attack on may 2021.

Twenty-two officers’ applicant files were in an archive that was 165 MB compressed. This was in addition to the first small dump the threat actors made with 5 other officers’ applicant files.

It was revealed that the ransom demand was $4 million USD, and that the police department’s supposedly final offer was $100,000.00 which was rejected by the hacker group.

They also uploaded a new archive of files that appears to be 22.7 GB in size, hackers indicated that they had downloaded 250 GB of data, so this is allegedly another partial dump.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/negotiations-fail-threat-actors-dump-more-data-from-metropolitan-police-d-c/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/dc-metropolitan-police-department

"id": "dcm121313123",
"linkid": "dc-metropolitan-police-department",
"type": "Ransomware",
"date": "05/2021",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Law Enforcement',
                        'location': 'Washington D.C.',
                        'name': 'DC Metropolitan Police Department',
                        'type': 'Government'}],
 'data_breach': {'data_exfiltration': True,
                 'file_types_exposed': ['Application files'],
                 'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Applicant files',
                                              'Other sensitive data']},
 'date_detected': 'May 2021',
 'description': 'DC Metropolitan Police Department was affected by a cyber '
                'attack in May 2021. Twenty-two officers’ applicant files were '
                'in an archive that was 165 MB compressed. This was in '
                'addition to the first small dump the threat actors made with '
                '5 other officers’ applicant files. It was revealed that the '
                'ransom demand was $4 million USD, and that the police '
                'department’s supposedly final offer was $100,000.00 which was '
                'rejected by the hacker group. They also uploaded a new '
                'archive of files that appears to be 22.7 GB in size, hackers '
                'indicated that they had downloaded 250 GB of data, so this is '
                'allegedly another partial dump.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Applicant files', 'Other sensitive data']},
 'motivation': 'Financial',
 'ransomware': {'data_exfiltration': True, 'ransom_demanded': '$4 million USD'},
 'title': 'Cyber Attack on DC Metropolitan Police Department',
 'type': 'Ransomware'}