According to sources, Elkhart Deputy City Attorney’s Email (a Government organization in Indiana) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2021-08-06.
Source 1 | 2021-08-06
“• “Michiana officials have recently been targets for emails hacks, as Elkhart Deputy City attorney, Randy Arndt, falls victim in the latest hack.” • “The hack took place on Thursday evening, evening, we thousands of emails went out from a hacker, pretending to look for applicants for a law firm, then eventually asking for money from anyone who followed the instructions.” • “The Elkhart city Information Technology department, is labeling it a brute force attack, where the hacker gathers a large number of passwords and attempts all of them until successfully logging in.” • "We had a breach in someone’s email account. It was appeared to be a brute force attack. They got into the account, sent out an error email, and we isolated it and resolved the issue," said Elkhart city I.T. Director Richard Warfield.” • "It posed no danger to anyone as we have mechanisms in place to isolate certain things if we get let’s say a ransom ware attack, we have things in place to catch that and stop it in its tracks," said Warfield.” “
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