"Hack of D.C. police cameras was part of larger ransomware scheme, prosecutors say When hackers took over two-thirds of D.C. police’s surveillance cameras days before the 2017 presidential inauguration, it appeared that the cyberattack was limited to elicit a single ransom payment... But court documents show that the alleged scheme that January was far more ambitious. Federal authorities say two Romanians accused in the hacking planned to use the police department computers to email ransomware to more than 179,000 accounts. Prosecutors said the alleged hackers had also stolen banking credentials and account passwords, and, using the police computers, could have committed “fraud schemes with anonymity.”... In addition, authorities said they uncovered a separate scheme run by the same people — an allegedly fraudulent business that tricked Amazon’s offices in Great Britain into sending money to the Romanians... ...[P]rosecutors said the hackers probably did not know that the computers were used by police..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...03a221946a7_story.html?utm_term=.3da2706c80e6
