Quote:The Babuk gang of threat actors claims to have stolen more than 250 gigabytes of data from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on Monday, including police reports, internal memos, and arrested people’s mug shots and personal details. 
 
According to Vice, the attackers published the claim and the data on the official Babuk site. They also criticized the MPD’s security, and taunted the law enforcement agency by saying that “We find 0 day before you” in its demand note, and threatened to publish yet more data if their extortion demands aren’t met. 
 
“We will not comment this time: Even such an organization has huge security gaps, we advise them to get in touch as soon as possible and pay us, otherwise we will publish this data,” the attackers reportedly wrote.
The outlet reported that Babuk published folders, purportedly filched from the MPD, that are named “Gang Conflict Report,” “BLOODS” and “BEEFS – CONFLICTS.” 
 
An MPD spokesperson acknowledged in an email sent to Threatpost Tuesday morning that the department’s systems had been breached and that it had contacted the FBI.
 
“We are aware of unauthorized access on our server,” the spokesperson said. “While we determine the full impact and continue to review activity, we have engaged the FBI to fully investigate this matter.”