According to sources, The city of Oakland (a Government organization in California) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2023-02-11.
Source 1 | 2023-02-11
“The city of Oakland confirmed a ransomware attack Friday night. As they explained, various computer systems of the public administration have started to experience problems of functioning, although they guarantee it critical infrastructure has not been compromised.“
“City officials released a statement Friday afternoon saying the ransomware attack began Wednesday night. Computers in all Oakland public libraries were reportedly down, forcing librarians to use roadmaps transfer books from one branch to another.“
“On Thursday evening, Yassin said city officials sent an email to government employees attributing service outages to the ransomware attack that began Wednesday.“
Source 2 | 2023-02-14
“Oakland declared a local state of emergency Tuesday because of ongoing impacts of a ransomware attack that has resulted in network outages to the city's systems.“
“The city announced that Interim City Administrator G. Harold Duffey issued the state of emergency in order to allow the city to activate emergency workers, expedite the procurement of equipment and materials to restore systems, and issue orders on an expedited basis. “
“The ransomware attack began the evening of Feb. 8, police and city officials said Friday. Such attacks involve someone encrypting files and demanding ransom to decrypt them. The encryption makes the files and the systems that rely on them unusable, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. “
Source 3 | 2023-03-16
“Stolen personal and financial files from the City of Oakland were leaked onto the dark web by ransomware group "Play." The stolen data has more than 3,100 views as of March 16.“
“"Currently, there are 40 different victim profiles active on the site," said James Aurand, the counterintelligence lead with Binary Defense. Aurand says 18 of those victim profiles appear to be from Oakland - about 10 GB of data.“
“According to Aurand, the dark website has a countdown timer letting victims know how much time they have left before that data is going to be released or made public on the site. It's accessible through a password that's provided to view the data.“
“The I-Team confirmed the City of Oakland upgraded their Microsoft 365 services this week in order to implement 'enhanced security controls' like multi-factor authentication and compromised account detection.“
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