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An unnamed US county – perhaps in Ohio – paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals

  • Jessica Lyons--Theregister.com
  • published date: 2026-07-09 22:30:21 UTC

Leaked negotiations spill the tea

A US county reportedly paid $1 million to Kairos, an extortion gang that claimed to have stolen more than 2 TB of data, but the county never received independently verifiable proof that the stolen fi… [+6764 chars]