đź’° Ring Is in a Standoff With Hackers

TL;DR

What’s more controversial than a popular surveillance camera maker that has an uncomfortably cozy relationship with American police? When ransomware hackers claim to have breached that company—Amazon-owned camera maker Ring—stolen its data, and Ring responds by denying the breach. ALPHV, a prolific group of hackers who extort companies with ransomware and leak their stolen data, said earlier this week that it had breached security camera maker Ring and threatened to dump the company’s data online if it doesn’t pay. The site’s alleged creator, 49-year-old Vietnamese national Minh Quốc Nguyễn, remains out of reach: He’s been charged with money laundering only in absentia

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