A ransomware attack plaguing City of Oakland computer systems has worsened with a new trove of personal data of employees and residents released onto the so-called dark web, city officials acknowledged.
prompting the city administrator to declare a state of emergency
On Tuesday, city officials confirmed the same hacker group which released sensitive personal information in February was also responsible for a data dump of some 600 gigabytes of information, about 60 times larger than the previous data release. The data is accessible by anyone with custom software created for darknet websites.
Mayor Sheng Thao said Wednesday during a press event promoting downtown businesses that the city was still working with local and federal law enforcement to resolve the ongoing attack.
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