'Currently, there are 40 different victim profiles active on the site,' said James Aurand, the counterintelligence lead with Binary Defense. He says 18 of those victim profiles appear to be from Oakland - about 10 GB of data.
Gallo says current and former city employees and local small business owners, who only speak Spanish, are struggling to get help.
The I-Team confirmed the City of Oakland upgraded their Microsoft 365 services this week in order to implement 'enhanced security controls' like multi-factor authentication and compromised account detection.Social security, bank info of Oakland employees, businesses may be compromised in ransomware leak
KnowBe4 is conducting simulations that assess the percentage of Oakland city employees at risk to phishing scam emails - one of the ways the ransomware group Play may have hacked into the city's network. According to McQuiggan, currently one in every three employees may be at risk. Data obtained by the I-Team shows the city's IT department has 89 budgeted positions, with 17 current vacancies. But the city is under a hiring freeze and is facing a multi-million dollar budget deficit next year."From a staffing perspective, don't just rely on security training," said Patrick Harr, the CEO of Slashnext, an integrated cloud security company.
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