Ransomware disrupts Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General operations
The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General in the United States was hit by a ransomware attack in August 2025 that encrypted files and disrupted access to email, documents and internal systems. Court case processing and operations were delayed, and the office did not pay a ransom, handling some work by alternative means. It later confirmed the leak of personal information, including social security numbers, and notified residents.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Outages of internal systems, website, email and phones; delays in case processing; leak of personal information including social security numbers
- Cause / method
- File encryption and ransom demand by external attackers using ransomware
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It emerged that a ransomware attack had taken down key internal systems and delayed case processing.
- The Office of Attorney General confirmed that external attackers had encrypted files and demanded money, and said it had not paid the ransom.
- The office confirmed that weeks of website, email and phone outages were caused by ransomware and handled some work by alternative means.
- The Office of Attorney General notified residents of the personal data leak.
- It was confirmed that social security numbers had been stolen in the August ransomware attack.
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