B.C. regional government acknowledges cyber attack

A British Columbia municipality has acknowledged being the victim of a cyber attack just over two weeks in the past.

The admission manufactured today will come right after the LockBit ransomware gang shown the Sunshine Coastline Regional District on its info breach internet site.

“On Thursday, September 8 and for most of Friday, September 9, laptop servers at the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) have been offline,” the municipality stated in a assertion. “This triggered an electronic mail outage at the SCRD and our web page was also offline. The SCRD’s servers were back on the internet within just 16 several hours with extremely small influence to companies.

“At this time, it appears as although the SCRD has been a victim of a deliberate attempt by criminals to entry data on our servers. In response, the SCRD has contracted an exterior cyber protection agency to guide with our investigation and the Sunshine Coast RCMP has also opened a file on this cyber incident.

“Out of an abundance of warning, the SCRD has also notified the [British Columbia] Place of work of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) which is observed as very best exercise in these situations.

“The SCRD is at present doing work to identify if any particular info may have been compromised on our servers all through the cyber incident. If this is the situation then the SCRD will stick to founded procedures through the OIPC with notifications to people influenced.”

Headquartered in the town of Sechelt, the regional district is unfold throughout some 3,700 sq. km. It has a populace of about 32,000 that consists of the town of Gibson, the Schelet Indian Federal government District, and a number of Indigenous reserves. Schelet is about a two-and-half hour push and ferry experience from Vancouver. According to Wikipedia, the district is normally accessed by way of ferry, boat or aircraft no roads link it with the rest of the province.