City of Oakland

The City of Oakland was targeted by Ransomware Attack after that Oakland continues to experience a network outage that has left several non-emergency systems including phone lines within the City of Oakland impacted or offline.

The City appreciates the community's patience while workers from several departments collaborate to reduce interruptions and put in place workarounds to typical business procedures that enable the City to keep providing services.

In addition to engaging with additional cybersecurity and technology companies on recovery and remediation efforts, the City's IT Department is collaborating with a top forensics firm to conduct a thorough incident response and investigation.

With numerous local, state, and federal authorities participating, this inquiry is still ongoing.

In order to address the problem, the City is creating a response strategy while adhering to industry best practises.

ITD has taken affected systems offline out of an abundance of caution as they seek to secure and safely restore services.

The public should anticipate delays from the City in the interim.

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/oakland

"id": "cit6316223",
"linkid": "oakland",
"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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                'leading to a network outage that has impacted several '
                "non-emergency systems, including phone lines. The City's IT "
                'Department is collaborating with cybersecurity and technology '
                'companies, as well as a top forensics firm, to conduct a '
                'thorough incident response and investigation. The inquiry is '
                'ongoing with local, state, and federal authorities '
                'participating.',
 'impact': {'downtime': 'Ongoing',
            'operational_impact': 'Delays in city services',
            'systems_affected': ['Non-emergency systems', 'Phone lines']},
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                                        'delays',
              'containment_measures': ['Affected systems taken offline'],
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