After a data breach, the US Department of Energy was asked for ransom twice

A representative for the United States Department of Energy said on Friday that the agency had received ransom demands from the Russia-linked extortion gang Cl0p at its nuclear waste plant and the scientific education institutions that had been compromised in a recent global hacking campaign.

Oak Ridge Associated Universities, a contractor for the Department of Energy, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, a facility for....