Cybercrime Crew Says They Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow

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Play, a Russian-language redemptive project that has had more than 900 organizations starting in 2022, it posted on its website Monday that it had released “confidential information, customer documents, budgets, salaries, IDs, taxes,” and other financial records from MyPillow. The Minnesota-based real estate company is run by Mike Lindell, who is among at least 10 Republican candidates seeking the party’s nomination for Minnesota governor in the August primary. Lindell is one of the biggest contributors to Donald Trump’s false propaganda campaign to win the 2020 election.

Play says it set a deadline of Friday for MyPillow to connect before publishing the information online. Lindell he told Straight Arrow Newswho broke the news about the ransomware on Tuesdaythat his company was not hacked and that the allegation was a political exercise.

“This is another job that outsiders get because I’m running for governor,” Lindell said. “I assure you. We are not breaching anything in our data.”

Lindell has lost two recent rulings in the 2020 election: A federal court in Colorado last year found that he defamed Eric Coomer, the former head of Dominion Voting Systems, and ordered Lindell and his media platform, FrankSpeech, to pay $2.3 million in damages; A federal judge in Minnesota separately ruled in September that Lindell defamed Smartmatic through 51 falsehoods about its voting machine, and damages could have been sued.

In recent years, the rescue groups have become more aggressive and ruthless in their efforts to get money from victims. Many of these hackers now focus on stealing data and hijacking companies rather than using malware to lock down computers. But sometimes, ransomware groups are seen threatening officials, or contacting people who have been hacked, to try to pay. The FBI he said this week that one ransomware group is making great strides: sending people to steal data from companies IRL.

Among other traditional methods of social engineering, the FBI says the Silent Ransom Group (SRG), which targets law firms, has sent people to corporate offices to gain direct access to computers. “By sending an individual to the victim’s location to facilitate the intervention, SRG actors remove data from an external hard drive or USB drive installed by the attacker on the victim’s computer,” the FBI said in a warning. Security researchers say this method has not been seen before. The FBI has not released any information about who the Russian-speaking ransomware group sent to attack them, but investigators believe they may be paying freelancers who don’t really know who they’re working for.

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University of Chicago sociology professor Rob Vargas found this month that the Chicago Police Department was four minutes faster in responding to 911 calls than it was in the six months since Mayor Brandon Johnson shut down the ShotSpotter gun detection system in 12 counties in September 2024. Six months ago when ShotSpotter was still active. The data could not be used to evaluate response times to calls related to gunshots, but it did show that ShotSpotter’s alerts may have caught officers on false positives and delayed them from responding to other types of critical 911 calls. “It’s clear that ShotSpotter wasted officers’ time by chasing geese,” Vargas told WTTW News.