Pennsylvania Attorney General Confirms Data Breach After Ransomware Attack

The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has confirmed suffering a data breach after it was targeted in a ransomware attack earlier this year.

The attack on the Pennsylvania OAG came to light in August, when the organization announced that a cyberattack had disrupted its website, email accounts, and phone lines. Service outages lasted for roughly three weeks.

The OAG confirmed in late August that it had been targeted in a ransomware attack that involved the deployment of file-encrypting malware, but said no ransom had been paid.

The Inc Ransom group took credit for the attack on the Pennsylvania OAG on September 21, claiming to have stolen 5.7 TB of data and gaining “access to internal network of FBI”.

The hackers allegedly obtained information from a wide range of investigative units within the attorney general’s office, as well as details on the organization’s use of Cellebrite ...