England Hockey investigating ransomware data breach

England Hockey is investigating an alleged ransomware data breach after the AiLock group claimed to have stolen 129GB of data and threatened to publish it unless paid; the organization is engaging external specialists and law enforcement while details remain unconfirmed. AiLock is described as a double-extortion operation that encrypts files (appending .AILock) using ChaCha20 and NTRUEncrypt and employs short negotiation timelines before leaking stolen data.