Rhysida gained access to 46.5 thousand contracts, email addresses, phone numbers, passwords, and other sensitive information.
The company promised to put the data up for auction with a starting price of 30 bitcoins (about $77.6 thousand) in a little less than seven days. Berlin, meanwhile, received payment demands for an unknown amount.
“Berlin will not give in to blackmail,” — said Berlin’s mayor Kai Wegner and Berlin’s interior senator Iris Spranger.
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