Ransomware criminals have posted trophy pictures on their Tor blog after attacking the police force for US capital Washington DC.
The Metropolitan Police Department said it was "aware of unauthorised access on our server" and had engaged the FBI to investigate, according to BleepingComputer.
Babuk, a relatively new ransomware gang, claimed credit for the attack and claimed to have stolen 250GB of files from the force. The Register had a look at their blog and found screenshots of folder names suggesting personal data was available to the criminals, as well as details of ongoing investigations.
There was no mention on the Metropolitan Police Department's website or social media channels of the ransomware attack. We have asked them to comment further.
