City of Oakland, Office of the Inspector General

The City of Oakland declared that they had been the subject of a ransomware attack and that they were actively working to secure and safely restore services.

With the aid of cybersecurity experts, the city claimed to have continued its thorough investigation into the ransomware outbreak.

The personal information of a small subset of residents and a few specific current and past employees has so far been found to be implicated after a thorough manual analysis of the data that was identified to be included.

Current and former employees whose personal information was impacted by the ransomware incident have received letters of notification from the City of Oakland.

Source: https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/city-of-oakland-targeted-by-ransomware-attack-core-services-not-affected

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/oaklandoig

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"linkid": "oaklandoig",
"type": "Ransomware",
"date": "02/2023",
"severity": "75",
"impact": "2",
"explanation": "Attack limited on finance or reputation"

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                        'location': 'Oakland, California',
                        'name': 'City of Oakland',
                        'type': 'Government'}],
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 'title': 'Ransomware Attack on the City of Oakland',
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