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Court systems across Washington state have been down since Sunday when officials said "unauthorized activity" was detected on their networks. [...]
Justice still being served, but many systems are down A statewide IT outage attributed to "unauthorized activity" is affecting the availability of services provided by all courts in Washington.…
China on Tuesday said the US had "Fabricated" allegations it carried out a massive Microsoft hack, countering that Washington was the "World champion" of cyber attacks while raging at American allies for signing up to a rare joint statement of condemnation. The United States on Monday accused Beijing of carrying out the March cyber attack on Microsoft Exchange, a top email server for corporations around the world, and charged four Chinese nationals over the "Malicious" hack.
Another government agency has found itself the victim of a ransomware attack, and this time it's Washington, D.C.'s own police department. Serving the nation's capital, the Metropolitan Police Department has acknowledged unauthorized access on its server, an attack for which the Babuk Locker gang has claimed responsibility, according to BleepingComputer and other sites.
The Babuk gang of threat actors claims to have stolen more than 250 gigabytes of data from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department on Monday, including police reports, internal memos, and arrested people's mug shots and personal details. According to Vice., the attackers published the claim and the data on the official Babuk site.
Ransomware criminals have posted trophy pictures on their Tor blog after attacking the police force for US capital Washington DC. The Metropolitan Police Department said it was "Aware of unauthorised access on our server" and had engaged the FBI to investigate, according to BleepingComputer. Babuk, a relatively new ransomware gang, claimed credit for the attack and claimed to have stolen 250GB of files from the force.
In response to a security breach that exposed personal information from around 1.6 million unemployment claims filed last year, the Washington Senate has unanimously passed a measure that creates a state Office of Cybersecurity. The measure, passed by the chamber on Wednesday, creates the new office within the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
The Office of the Washington State Auditor has disclosed a cybersecurity incident in which the personal information of more than 1 million individuals might have been stolen. In its breach notification this week, SAO revealed that some of the files that were compromised in the incident contained "Personal information of Washington state residents who filed unemployment insurance claims in 2020.".
The Office of the Washington State Auditor on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerability in Accellion's File Transfer Appliance service, which allows organizations to share sensitive documents with users outside their organization securely.
Washington's State Auditor office has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information in 1.6 million employment claims. The Office of the Washington State Auditor states that they suffered a data breach after a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in a secure file transfer service from Accellion.