"The criminals began posting profiles of the children to their website last Thursday, adding another 10 children days later and vowing to continue until Kido Schools paid a ransom in Bitcoin. The criminals also contacted parents directly with threatening phone calls whilst trying to get their ransom paid. But public revulsion at their attack appears to have forced the criminals to backtrack."
"First they blurred the images but kept the data up - now they have taken all the information offline, and apologised for their actions. As others have also commented, DataBreaches does not believe that Radiant found their soul or had any genuine remorse. They likely discovered that other threat actors were trying to dox them and find them to um... er... have a quiet word with them?"
"DataBreaches was contacted by several over the past few days who would not have hesitated to inflict physical and violent injury on Radiant because they were genuinely disgusted with the attack and not just because it might make it harder for everyone else. Hospitals and kids are pretty much deplored as targets by many in the extortion/ransomware community, and not just for financial reasons or because it will bring more legal heat to everyone."
Criminals posted stolen images and data of nursery children on a darknet site and demanded ransom in Bitcoin from Kido Schools. They added profiles over several days and phoned parents with threats to pressure payment. Public revulsion prompted the criminals to blur images, then to remove all posted information and issue an apology while claiming to have deleted the data. DataBreaches expresses skepticism about genuine remorse and reports that other threat actors, angered by attacks on children and hospitals, contacted Radiant and threatened retaliation; many in the extortion community view hospitals and children as especially reprehensible targets.
Read at DataBreaches.Net
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