Leicester City Council confirms ransomware attack after confidential documents leaked

Leicester City Council in England has confirmed that last month’s cyber incident was a ransomware attack after being made aware that the criminals behind the incident had uploaded stolen documents to their dark web extortion site. INC Ransom had claimed to be behind the attack earlier this week, prompting Leicester’s strategic director, Richard Sword,

attack aware city confidential council criminals cyber cybercrime cyber incident dark dark web documents england extortion government incident leaked leicester ransom ransomware ransomware attack stolen web week