The cybercrime gang behind the PYSA ransomware (it stands for “Protect Your System Amigo”, and is also known as Mespinoza) has released files which they claim to have stolen from the London borough council of Hackney during an attack some months ago. As previously reported, Hackney Council acknowledged that it had been hit by a “serious cyber attack” in early October 2020, which left it unable to make housing benefit payments to the needy, and caused house purchases to fall through.

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