May 9, 2025 at 02:35PM

■■■■□ Ransomware as a Service group, LockBit, suffered an internal database leaked.

While the dump is a goldmine for researchers – revealing BTC addresses, victim chat logs, ransomware build info, and many other datapoints – there’s one detail that stands out:

They stored their passwords in plaintext.

For a group that prides itself on encryption, the irony is hard to ignore.
Source: James O’Grady