Rhode Island welfare system hack affects 657,000 people
SpilloverSpillover from the Deloitte incident · View original incident →RIBridges, the public welfare system of the US state of Rhode Island, was hit by a cyber-attack that took it offline and leaked residents' personal data. The ransomware group Brain Cipher published the stolen data, and efforts were underway to notify 657,000 victims. The state government moved to bring the system back online and later announced a $7 million settlement with contractor Deloitte.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- State of Rhode Island
- Original incident
- Brain Cipher claims Deloitte data theft; Deloitte denies
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal data of 657,000 people and public welfare system outage
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack and data theft by a ransomware group
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- Rhode Island's state network was hit by a cyber-attack, taking the public welfare system offline.
- It emerged that data stolen from RIBridges had been published on the dark web.
- Class action claims that recipients of state assistance had been affected were reported.
- Efforts were underway to notify 657,000 victims of the cyber-attack.
- Rhode Island moved to bring the RIBridges system back online.
- The state government announced a $7 million settlement with Deloitte over the RIBridges breach.
Original incident
This is spillover from the Deloitte incident.
Brain Cipher claims Deloitte data theft; Deloitte denies
The ransomware group Brain Cipher claimed to have stolen data from Deloitte. In response, Deloitte denied claims that its systems had been hacked.
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