Sonmez was lifted after she publicly pleaded with her editors to do so, according to the lawsuit. She alleges in the lawsuit that The Post did not provide security for her after she was inundated afterward with rape and death threats. Sonmez after she tweeted a link to a news article detailing sexual assault allegations against the basketball star Kobe Bryant shortly after his death. She added that her editors had “disciplined” her for publicly requesting a correction to the article. Sonmez said, The Post again subjected her to a coverage ban. (The accused journalist, who worked for The Los Angeles Times at the time, has denied the allegations.)Īfter an article in Reason magazine on allegations against the journalist came out a year later, Ms. Sonmez said in the lawsuit that after she publicly stated in 2018 that she had been assaulted by a fellow journalist while living in Beijing, The Post had barred her from covering Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual misconduct allegations against the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The suit also names as defendants five current high-level editors: Cameron Barr, Tracy Grant, Steve Ginsberg, Lori Montgomery and Peter Wallsten.
Among the defendants is The Post’s former executive editor Martin Baron, who retired in February. The lawsuit was filed in Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Sonmez, who has covered breaking political news at The Post since 2018, said in the lawsuit that she had been subjected to a hostile work environment after her editors put in place two bans over nearly two years that prevented her from excelling at her job.
Its most notorious members suddenly disappeared from cybercrime forums.įelicia Sonmez, a Washington Post reporter, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the newspaper and some of its top editors on Wednesday, claiming they had discriminated against her by barring her from covering stories related to sexual assault after she went public as a victim of assault. Gone was REvil’s “Happy Blog,” where it published emails and files stolen from REvil’s ransomware victims. Within days of the call, REvil went dark. The attack set off emergency meetings at the White House and prompted President Biden to call President Vladimir Putin of Russia and demand that he address the ransomware attacks stemming from inside his borders. The development is among the latest mysteries surrounding the Kaseya attack, in which a Russia-based ransomware group called REvil, short for Ransomware Evil, breached Kaseya and used it as a conduit to extort hundreds of Kaseya customers, including grocery and pharmacy chains in Sweden and two towns in Maryland, Leonardtown and North Beach. Kaseya said only that it had obtained the key from a “third party” on Wednesday and that it was “effective at unlocking victims.” The mystery is how the company obtained the key. Kaseya, the Miami-based company at the center of a ransomware attack on hundreds of businesses over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, said on Thursday that it had received a key that would help customers unlock access to their data and networks.