The ransomware group Clop took credit for the hack, and published the data behind the emails according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The emails appear to touch on innumerable topics, from conversations about when to ignore a reporter’s phone calls, extensive emails on the city’s COVID-19 planning, to a secretive Chicago Police Department drone surveillance program. So the group published a database that they say contains 60,000 documents of emails among top officials within Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration. And then … looking a bit deeper, we found all of the city of Chicago’s emails … we sort of knew that there was a lot of really important information in there.” “We found, you know, a lot of really corporate data … about mergers and acquisitions,” said activist Freddy Martinez, one the group’s advisors who’s from Chicago. The group behind the dump - Distributed Denial of Secrets - says it didn’t hack the emails, but after obtaining them around February, spent more than a month sifting through them, decoding the emails and deciding which ones to publish broadly. On April 19, a slew of tens of thousands of wide-ranging, private emails between Chicago public officials was quietly published online. To stay up to date on the stories that matter. WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.
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