top of page

Update on the Oakland City Ransomware attack of February, 2023.


 

Background Information:

  • The City of Oakland disclosed the Attack on February the 10th

  • The breach began on February the 8th.

  • On February the 14th, the the city of Oakland declared a local state of emergency due to the effect of the ransomware attack.

  • Play ransomware gang claims responsibility for the breach.


New Information:


On March the 3rd, it was confirmed by the city that an unauthorized third party had obtained files from their system and were to be released unless actions were taken.

After this, the gang started leaking part of the dump. The first part is a 10 GB compressed file. According to information made public by the Play ransomware gang, the compressed file includes the following:

  • Private and Personal confidential data.

  • Financial Information.

  • ID's.

  • Passports.

  • Employee full info.

  • Human rights violation information

Furthermore, they have indicated that if there is no reaction to this, they will upload the full dump of what they have manage to acquire.


You can read the information posted by the City of Oakland here.

24 views

Recent Posts

See All

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

On April the 13th, CISA added two known vulnerabilities to their catalog. This time we can find a vulnerability that affects the Android Framework, by meanings of a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability.

bottom of page