Las vegas Navada officials revealed on Wednesday that personal information was described as “refined ranges-based cyber security attack”, which took place on Sunday in which hackers infiltrated the government network and disrupted statewide essential services.
Nevada village. Joe Lombardo Was initially On Monday, there were no indications that personal data was stolen. However, at a news conference on Wednesday, Nevada State Chief Information Officer Tim Galuji indicated that personal information could be obtained.
“I should reveal that our ongoing forensic investigation has found evidence that some figures have been indicated, or taken out of the state network by malicious actors,” Galuji told reporters. “… At this stage we can not identify or classify the specific nature of this data yet.”
Many state services were brought for a stagnation by cyber attack. Many people showed this week in DMV offices across the state for their appointments, so that the agency is closed. State DMV offices were still closed till Wednesday.
Nevada DMV director Tony Laana said, “We want to remind our citizens that this statewide outage is affecting the operation of almost every state agency, and connectivity and health and human service sectors need to take priority on DMV services to influence security.”
Outage also prevented law enforcement from reaching the state DMV records. For a good part of Sunday, the dispatch phone lines for Nevada State Police were below. Emergency and necessary operations, such as 911 services, were still available.
Lombardo announced on Monday that all state offices were closed for in-tradition services until next notice. Breach only influenced the state systems, Lombardo said. The attack is under investigation.
Galuji said that “bringing the system back online is a careful process” and they should ensure that we have completely erased the danger before adding them again. “
Meanwhile, cyber security experts say that local governments are the major goals for cyber attacks.
Greg Moody, professor of information systems at Nevada, Las Vegas, told CBS News, “Now they are killing the government, such as not small, large federal, but the state and local community,” Greg Moody, Professor of Information Systems at the state and local community, “Nevada University, Las Vegas, told CBS News. “And so it is a trend for the last 12 to 18 months.”
One Analysis The US government has counted 525 ransomware attacks on institutions since 2018, compared to the software company, lost as a result of those attacks with an estimated $ 1.09 billion downtime.
Last month, A cyber attack St. Paul, in Minnesota, forced the city to close parts of its network. Public WiFi and some library services went offline. Minnesota village. Tim Walz activated the cyber unit of the National Guard to help restore the system.
Last year, Fulton County, Georgia, Atlanta’s house, Spend weeks in restoring courts and phones After a ransomware strike. County refused to pay.
And in the fall of 2023, a group connected to Iran Violation Elikippa, a piece of computer technology in Pennsylvania, which monitors water pressure. There was no contamination, but it served as a warning shot for important infrastructure.
Moody said, “The most potential lessons learned should reach your other state counterparts and share information so that other states, other cities, can learn from it and simply keep their defense in advance.” “So the same attack does not work against them.”
