San Francisco 49ers fell victim to BlackByte ransomware on Super Bowl Sunday

This year's Super Bowl was not very exciting. The game was low-scoring, and the halftime show was lackluster. The only interesting thing that happened on Super Bowl Sunday is the San Francisco 49ers, who wasn't even in the game, confirmed it got hacked. Over the weekend, the BlackByte ransomware group's dark web blog touted that it had CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE –NEWSLETTER – 2022/02/16 hacked servers belonging to the San Francisco 49ers and encrypted them. It wants $530 million for the key. The post contains a file called "2020 Invoices" to prove it has company data. Ars Technica notes that the cache holds hundreds of billing statements to entities including AT&T, Pepsi, and the city of Santa Clara.

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