IT-Sicherheit: Berliner Hacker-Ultimatum abgelaufen – Kein Lösegeld

Berlin witnessed an ultimatum from the criminal hacker group Rhysida lapse after a massive data theft in the Berlin state network. The fate of the group's threat to publish a 5.8 terabyte data package on the Darknet was uncertain immediately after the deadline expired on Friday afternoon. The ransom demand of 30 Bitcoin, equivalent to around two million euros, was posted on their leak site, which displayed a countdown set to expire at 15:35.

The Berlin Senate had previously affirmed that they would not engage with such extortion attempts and not pay any ransom. Following the expiration of the deadline, the website of the extortionists announced the "auction" had ended, stating "All files have been uploaded to the publicly accessible area - have fun browsing, data hunters!"

However, a link did not direct to the data but to an error message. The Senate's refusal to comply with extortion threats from the criminal hackers received approval in the professional world. Bianca Kastl of the Chaos Computer Club stated on RBB Inforadio that the Senate's decision was right. "If these groups were further supported with money or anything else, they would continue unabated," she said. "We must financially starve them."