In April 2021, hackers broke into the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) computers, locked up the files and demanded $4 million in ransom. The group responsible is known as Babuk. They started leaking data just before the MPD confirmed it had suffered an attack. The leaks included financial and marriage histories of officers, social security numbers and other confidential information. Babuk claims they were offered $100,000, but the police department has not confirmed whether it agreed to pay any ransom.
