Security News > 2023 > March > Play ransomware claims disruptive attack on City of Oakland
The Play ransomware gang has taken responsibility for a cyberattack on the City of Oakland that has disrupted IT systems since mid-February.
Oakland is a city in California on the east side of the San Francisco Bay Area with a population of about 440,000.
The city's authorities informed the public it had been targeted by a ransomware attack on February 10, 2023.
On February 14, 2023, the City of Oakland issued a local state of emergency to expedite restoring the impacted systems and bringing all its services back online as soon as possible.
The latest update on the City of Oakland website came on February 28, 2023, two weeks after the ransomware attack, with the service status remaining primarily unchanged.
The ransomware operation has attacked many organizations, including Belgium city of Antwerp, H-Hotels, Rackspace, Arnold Clark, and A10 Networks.
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