According to sources, South Walton Fire District (a Public Safety organization in Florida) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2022-11-21.
Source 1 | 2022-11-21
“ The South Walton Fire District is dealing with a ransomware incident that happened back in May. During the cyber attack, someone hacked their computer network and then attempted to blackmail the agency. They are taking extra precautions to hopefully protect their patient’s information.“
“On Memorial Day, SWFD learned that someone had temporarily gained access to their dispatch system, encrypted the data, and left a ransom note. “
““Fortunately, internally, we have a pretty robust mechanism in place to do backups,” SWFD Fire Chief Administrator Ryan Crawford said. “And so we never had to engage that threat actor to gain access to that data. We were able to reinstall that data and be back up and running in about a day and a half.” “
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