The City of Oakland Monday acknowledged that its servers have been hijacked by a hacker group called Play, in a cyberattack that has crippled the city's systems and compromised private data.
says the hacker group Play is not well-known, but has been flagged in the past by some cybersecurity websites that share bits of codes from various hacker groups in order help tech experts fight off attacks and improve security.
"What play has done is they have encrypted those files on Oakland City's servers with a code that only Play knows," said Quintin, "They have an unencrypted copy of the data, an unscrambled copy that they could read or give to whoever they want and Oakland doesn't have access to their own files unless they pay up,"
Chan says many Oakland businesses are worried about their tax and banking account information being made public. The city has tried to respond to the downed systems by offering extensions on contracts and extending the business tax deadline until April 17th.Quintin says there are some important measures everyone should take to protect themselves.
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