StateScoop: Officials in Torrance, California, last month said none of their roughly 145,000 residents’ personal data was compromised last month when the city was hit by a cyberattack that disabled municipal websites and online payment services. But that was revealed as incorrect this week following the publication and sale of as much as 200 gigabytes of city data by a ransomware actor.
Hackers behind a ransomware variant known as DoppelPaymer have started leaking documents stolen from Torrance on both a publicly accessible website and dark web forums, in hopes of collecting a bounty of 100 bitcoin — or about $700,000 — from the Los Angeles suburb.
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