100,000 UK police officers caught in hacker group’s ransomware debut

A new ransomware group is threatening to leak contact details of over 100,000 UK police officers after stealing data from government departments, including the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Home Office, the National Crime Agency (NCA), and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

The Times confirmed that a dark web listing from the group, known as ExfilSquad, in late July was legitimate, and that it had leaked the full names, email addresses, area of work details, and more, of over 100,000 staff listed on the Police National Legal Database (PNLD).

Police revealed that the data of 114,000 PNLD subscribers were leaked, and that most of these individuals were police officers.

The leak also included data from 2,615 CPS staff, 617 Home Office employees, 588 NCA staff and 402 MoD personnel

In all, ExfilSquad claimed to have hacked 15 firms and government bodies, including Microsoft and the UK’s Department for Education.

It had claimed that 135,000 law enforcement records were stolen, but the validity of these claims was reportedly doubted by researchers when it was listed.

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