Malicious hackers have uploaded a vast collection of private documents from the police department of a San Francisco Bay Area transit system to the internet, including specific claims of child abuse.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Department is responsible for the breach. BART’s chief communications officer, Alicia Trost, stated in an email that authorities were looking into the uploaded files and that there had been no impact on BART services as a result of the hackers. The exact date of the hack is unknown.
The culprits are part of a well-known ransomware hacker group that targets particular businesses and either encrypts private files or threatens to post them on the dark web. A review by NBC News found that the website where the BART Police leaks were posted contains more than 120,000 files.
Among the files are at least six scanned, unredacted reports describing alleged child abuse. These reports include the names and dates of birth of the children who are in danger, as well as descriptions of the alleged adult abusers in some cases.
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