Mayor Melvin Carter says that hackers have posted 43 gigabytes of data stolen from the City of St. Paul on the dark web after the city refused to pay a ransom.
Providing an update Monday evening on the July 25 cyberattack, Carter said that the gang with the stolen data has been described by federal authorities as a “sophisticated, money driven organization” known for stealing and selling massive volumes of data – measured in the terabytes – with its primary targets major corporations, hospitals, and governments.
Carter said that the 43 GB of data posted online Tuesday is a small fraction of the 153 TB (terabytes) of data hosted by the city online, and that the data shared appears to have come from a single shared network drive used by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. Carter says the drive is a place where employees “have stored their personal files over time.”…