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The same group of hackers that hit the NBA's Houston Rockets basketball team with a ransomware attack earlier this month has now turned its sights on the police force in Washington, D.C. It is the latest in a string of concerning ransomware attacks aimed at police over the past several weeks, where data leaks can put people's lives in danger. More than just a potentially embarrassing situation, in which private information could be revealed to the public, unscrupulous hackers are also threatening to reveal the identity of police informants to gangs, according to a post on the dark web viewed by The New York Times. In such a scenario, a data dump could conceivably result in actual bodily harm,...
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