About 4,000 stolen files from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) have been dumped online by frustrated ransomware criminals after the public sector body refused to pay out.
The move was predicted by the agency itself following the Conti criminal gang’s malware attack against SEPA earlier this month.
SEPA had, quite correctly, refused to pay the extortionists to prevent disclosure. It had even predicted how many files the crims would dump online, saying on 14 January: “Nevertheless, it still means that at least four thousand files may have been stolen by criminals.”
The effects of the attack were to knock a few of SEPA’s services offline, although it insisted that its flood forecasting and warning functions were able to continue operating regardless of the disruption.
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