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Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday accused a hacker gang of demanding ransom — from the city and a private law firm hired to investigate a botched police raid — in exchange for keeping secret a massive cache of City Hall emails that are now getting widespread attention.
The ransom demands weren’t met and the emails were ultimately posted to the “dark web,” a shadowy portion of the internet that’s a haven for cybercriminals. Last month, Distributed Denial of Secrets, a nonprofit whistleblower group likened to WikiLeaks, republished the massive document dump, which lifts the veil on some of the inner workings of the Lightfoot administration.