November 16, 2023 at 05:25PM
Long Beach, California, has suffered a cyberattack, leading to the shutdown of portions of their IT network. The city detected the attack and began taking systems offline immediately to prevent further spread. Systems are expected to be offline for several days while the incident is investigated. It is unclear what type of cyberattack occurred, but ransomware is a possibility. Emergency services are unaffected, but some online services will not be available.
From the meeting notes, the key points are as follows:
1. The City of Long Beach suffered a cyberattack on November 14th.
2. They have engaged a cybersecurity firm to investigate the incident and notified the FBI.
3. Systems were taken offline immediately to prevent the spread of the attack.
4. City email and phone systems are generally expected to remain available.
5. Some online services will be unavailable over the weekend, but emergency services are not affected.
6. The type of cyberattack is not yet known, but it may be a ransomware attack.
7. No threat actors have claimed responsibility for the attack.
8. If it is indeed ransomware, it would be the 80th local government to suffer such an attack in 2023, with 46 of them having data stolen.
9. Further questions were sent to the City, but a response hasn’t been received yet.
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