According to sources, The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (a Government organization in Rhode Island) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2022-02-01.
Source 1 | 2022-02-01
“-"Officials say a data breach at the state agency that operates Rhode Island’s public bus service compromised the personal information of about 22,000 people" -"about 5,000 agency employees as well as 17,000 other public employees were affected. The breach remains under investigation, both internally, and by the state attorney general." -"much of the information compromised was contained in documents from the state’s former health plan administrator, stored on non-encrypted RIPTA servers." -"“
Source 2 | 2022-04-14
“-"The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority said Thursday it paid hackers $170,000 in ransom money after a massive data breach in August." -"The hack exposed the names, birth dates, and social security numbers of thousands of state employees, some of which didn’t even work for the agency." -"“RIPTA will continue to work with third party vendors to ensure that sensitive information is not transmitted to RIPTA inappropriately in the future,” said RIPTA." “
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