Last week, the Southampton district administration (Virginia) began to inform residents that their personal information could be compromised as a result of the attack of cyber carriers. The incident became known in September, then the hackers gained access to the server with data on the residents of the district and encrypted the data stored on it.
The Southampton administration said that immediately after the IT team was discovered, the IT team took measures to localize it and began the investigation to determine the type of compromised data. The investigation showed that names, addresses, driver rights and social insurance numbers of residents of the district fell into the hands of attackers. The letter states that the administration has no accurate information about whether the attackers were able to delete the personal information of the inhabitants from the server, but there is an accurate confirmation that cybercriminals posted some information on the Internet.
It is known that behind the attack on the district there is a group Lockbit 3.0, which boasted this on its website. True, as a confirmation of their words, the attackers provided only a few screenshots on which there were names of folders with the data of residents of Southampton. For deleting all the information or loading all stolen LockBit requires $ 90,000.