<ul><li>The City of Columbus, Ohio confirms that hackers stole personal data of 500,000 residents during a ransomware attack.</li><li>The compromised information includes names, dates of birth, addresses, identification documents, Social Security numbers, and bank account details.</li><li>Columbus disconnected its network from the internet to thwart the attack and the ransomware gang responsible demanded 30 bitcoins (around $1.9 million) in exchange for the stolen data.</li><li>Rhysida, the ransomware gang, claims to have uploaded 3.1 terabytes of unsold data stolen from Columbus on the dark web.</li></ul>

Columbus says ransomware gang stole personal data of 500,000 Ohio residents

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