Oakland

The perpetrators of the ransomware attack against Oakland have leaked more of the data from the hack. The city has confirmed that Play, the hacker group claiming responsibility for the ransomware, has shared a second batch of info on the dark web. While officials aren't sharing more details, The Oaklandside sources say the dump was 600GB and included confidential Oakland Police Department files (including disciplinary records), council members' communications and city staff's medical records. The first release from early…

Dominique Bernardo first noticed chewed up bread.“I think rats chewed on this,” she recalls telling her manager in early 2021 at a Trader Joe’s store in Oakland. Weeks passed, and Bernardo said she would spend the first 30 to 40 minutes of her shift cleaning rat feces at the College Avenue store.It was only after the problem snowballed and customers began returning damaged products that the company took more aggressive measures to deal with the infestation, said Bernardo, who has worked for the grocery chain for 18…

“Citizen, and the premium version, is not the panacea. It will not fix the world’s problems. It will not stop crime from happening all over the world. It’s not that,” Chandler says. “But it is a very powerful way for marginalized communities to make their voices heard.”  “Unfortunately, they don’t have a Chinese helper”  “While the idea of Citizen is brilliant … I do come to this with a healthy dose of skepticism because of the uniqueness of our community,” says OCA’s Kosai. “One of the things that I’m always thinking…

Photo: Sundry Photography (Shutterstock)A week after a calamitous ransomware attack struck the city of Oakland, local officials have declared a state of emergency. The California city’s ongoing network issues continue to hamper city services and operations, officials said earlier this week. The office of City Administrator G. Harold Duffey released an official statement Tuesday, in which Duffey asked residents for “patience and understanding” as the government works to get its systems back online. “The City of Oakland…

The city government of Oakland, California was hit by a ransomware attack on February 8th, and its departments can still feel the security breach's ramifications. While the local government didn't give out details about the incident, such as how much money the bad actors are demanding, it said in an announcement that the city had to take its network offline to contain the attack. That has rendered many of Oakland's non-emergency services inaccessible, such as websites that would allow residents to pay parking fines or…

YG and Kamaiyah have buried the hatchet.The two rappers were reunited on Wednesday during YG’s Red Cup Tour stop in Oakland. The Compton rapper surprised fans by bringing out hometown hero Kamaiyah, who in 2020 left 4Hunnid after a disagreement about her future with YG’s label.“I swear to God, I don’t know what they know, I don’t know what they heard about — on the blogs they read, I don’t know nothing,” YG said while stood next to Kamaiyah. “But I love you. Come give me a hug.”“I love you too,” Kamaiyah responded, before…

Bay Area rapper Too Short was honored over the weekend by getting a portion of Foothill Boulevard in Oakland named after him. Ice Cube, Mistah F.A.B., Sway Calloway, were all in attendance.The three-block stretch of Foothill Boulevard, between High Street and 47th Avenue, which is just outside Fremont High School, where Too Short went after moving to East Oakland from Los Angeles in the 1980s, will be renamed “Too Short Way.” “I have felt like I owe a debt to Oakland, and that nothing I do will ever repay it because of…

Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Port of Bremerhaven, the main roll on/roll off port in Germany and one of the largest automobile hubs in the world, is experiencing gridlock.The combination of the lack of drivers to move containers and cars out of the port and high volumes of regular trade is creating a pileup of vehicles on land and at sea from automakers including Tesla, Stellantis, BMW, Renault and Volvo.Logistics managers consulted by CNBC described the auto export delays as significant."These delays are…

An abortion rights protester participates in nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Houston, Texas, May 14, 2022.Callaghan O'hare | ReutersPeople across the United States skipped work on Friday for a "Day Without Us" protest of the recent Supreme Court decision overturning the federal constitutional right to an abortion.Organized by a group of Black women leaders, national teach-ins are being held online…

Six people were injured in a shooting Wednesday afternoon at an Oakland school campus, according to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.The injured were taken to two area hospitals from the Fontaine Street campus, where students in grades K-12 attend three schools on a shared campus. Alameda County sheriff’s spokesperson Lt. Ray Kelly said officials responded to a shooting just after 1 p.m. He said the scene was no longer active, but he did not have immediate details about the extent of the victims’ injuries or what…