The North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance agency was a victim of a cybersecurity attack.
Attack involved personal data.
A Workforce Safety & Insurance employee noticed unusual activity on their computer after opening an email attachment and reported the incident to the internal help desk.
The computer was secured and removed from the state network..
WSI immediately contacted North Dakota Information Technology, which referred the incident to the NDIT Cyber Analysis and Response team.
The sophisticated phishing attack was isolated to a single computer and did not spread to the state network.
The emails contained personal information of 182 injured employees.
"id": "NOR1916281022",
"linkid": "workforce-safety-&-insurance",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "08/2022",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"