Washington’s Metropolitan police department recorded threats to lawmakers and public facilities in the wake of the 6 January attack on the Capitol, according to documents made public in a ransomware hack on their systems this month. The police documents were stolen and published by the ransomware attack group Babuk, and some were redistributed by the transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets, from whom they were obtained by the Guardian. Various outlets last week published stories based on the data showing intelligence indicating that far-right Boogaloo groups planned to attack various targets in the capital. The threats continued for weeks after the attack. A bulletin includes the claim that “FBI [is] working with Lyft and Uber to identify riders to and from the protest locations”.

Source: The Guardian May 23, 2021 09:00 UTC