Security News > 2023 > January > Vice Society ransomware claims attack on Australian firefighting service
Australia's Fire Rescue Victoria has disclosed a data breach caused by a December cyberattack that is now claimed by the Vice Society ransomware gang.
Fire Rescue Victoria is a fire and rescue service operating across 85 stations in the Australian state of Victoria that has approximately 4,500 operational and corporate employees.
This data breach notifications comes after the Vice Society ransomware gang claimed to be behind the attack on Fire Rescue Victoria and indicated they would start leaking stolen data.
On January 10th, an entry for Fire Rescue Victoria appeared on Vice Ransomware's Tor data leak site, with a link to allegedly stolen data.
While some ransomware operations have policies against targeting emergency services and healthcare entities, Vice Society tends to attack any entity they can breach.
The ransomware operation launched in January 2021, when they began utilizing other ransomware gang's malware as part of their attacks, including BlackCat, QuantumLocker, Zeppelin, a Vice Society-branded variant of Zeppelin ransomware, and Hello Kitty encryptors.
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