Foreign hackers from a group that calls itself Rhysida have begun releasing data stolen from city of Columbus servers onto the dark web, as Mayor Andrew J. Ginther remains mum as to how that may affect city employees and members of the public whose information may have been compromised.
“I can confirm that some of it has,” said Daniel Maldet, with the Columbus office of CMIT Solutions, an IT consultant not directly working on the case.
“What I’m seeing are a lot of user profiles — backups from their computers,” Maldet said in an email. “I’m also seeing a bunch of database backup files that were probably taken from the servers that Rhysida claims to have stolen.
“They are showing that 3.1 TB (terabytes) of data is released – 258,270 files which is 45% of the stolen data. They show, ‘not sold data was uploaded, data hunter, enjoy’. This might suggest that 55% of the data was sold — that’s just a guess.”
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