{"id":83266,"date":"2026-09-02T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/83266\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:09:34","slug":"cyber-criminals-demand-e2m-in-ransom-after-berlin-data-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/83266\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber criminals demand \u20ac2m in ransom after Berlin data theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A group of professional hackers is demanding a ransom of around \u20ac2 million ($2.3 million) from the Berlin state government following a cyberattack on the administration&#8217;s data network that lasted several days, a spokeswoman told dpa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It is true that a group calling itself Rhysida has claimed responsibility for the attack and claims to be in possession of 5.7 terabytes of stolen data,&#8221; city government spokeswoman Christine Richter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The group has been offering the stolen data for sale on the dark web as part of an auction since last Friday, she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The minimum bid is 30 bitcoins, which is around \u20ac2 million. The auction runs until Friday,&#8221; said Richter. &#8220;It must be assumed that the data will subsequently be resold or published in whole or in part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Richter said the group is highly professional and has been linked to various cyberattacks on targets in northern and southern Europe, Germany and the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There is no evidence of links to Russia or even the Russian state, but this cannot be ruled out either,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">News of the cyberattack emerged on August 14. According to current findings, data was leaked on a large scale between August 7 and 12, including sensitive personal data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner said on Friday that the city would not give in to blackmail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of professional hackers is demanding a ransom of around \u20ac2 million ($2.3 million) from the Berlin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,2687,60189],"class_list":["post-83266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-kai-wegner","tag-richter-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}