<ul><li>The City of Columbus, Ohio, has acknowledged that the details of over 500,000 individuals were stolen in a cyberattack.</li><li>The cyberattack occurred after the city was targeted by the Rhysida ransomware gang, who claimed responsibility for the attack and stole 6.4 terabytes of data.</li><li>Initially, the city claimed the leaked data was encrypted, but a security researcher disputed this claim and shared unencrypted examples of the leaked data.</li><li>The city filed a lawsuit against the security researcher, but later dropped the case after acknowledging the data breach and reaching an agreement with the researcher.</li></ul>

City of Columbus acknowledges data theft after lawsuit against security researcher

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