City of Midwest City

Midwest City notified its residents of incident that affected numerous municipalities.

It reports that about 2,300 customers were potentially affected by a breach involving software needed to use Click2Gov.

The notifications came from cities across the United States, which reported both data breaches and the installation of cryptocurrency miners.

The attackers didn’t break in through Click2Gov but through a third-party software.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/midwest-city-notifies-residents-of-incident-that-affected-numerous-municipalities/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/city-of-midwest-city

"id": "cit151612722",
"linkid": "city-of-midwest-city",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "06/2018",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "6",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the economy of a geographical region"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 2300,
                        'industry': 'Government',
                        'location': 'United States',
                        'name': 'Midwest City',
                        'type': 'Municipality'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Third-party software',
 'description': 'Midwest City notified its residents of an incident that '
                'affected numerous municipalities. It reports that about 2,300 '
                'customers were potentially affected by a breach involving '
                'software needed to use Click2Gov. The notifications came from '
                'cities across the United States, which reported both data '
                'breaches and the installation of cryptocurrency miners. The '
                'attackers didn’t break in through Click2Gov but through a '
                'third-party software.',
 'motivation': ['Data Theft', 'Cryptocurrency Mining'],
 'title': 'Click2Gov Data Breach and Cryptocurrency Miner Installation',
 'type': ['Data Breach', 'Cryptocurrency Mining'],
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Third-party software vulnerability'}