Don't Compromise Your Government Security
Cyber attacks can strike at any time and at any city, state or local government level. It's not suprising that losing months worth of data and spending millions of dollars for upgraded security are two of the biggest challenges to overcome. In just the last few years, we’ve seen attacks against city, state and local governments skyrocket – just take a look at the timeline below!
Law
Enforcement
Utilities
Emergency
Services
Citizen
Services
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March 2018
Georgia
Atlanta, GA
(law enforcement/emergency services/utilities/payroll)
Brute-force ransomware attack that encrypted government servers and impacted various internal and customer-facing applications
including the Atlanta PD.
Maryland
Baltimore, MD
(emergency services)
Suffered a breach imapcting the city's CAD system, focing dispatch workers to handle calls manually and taking the dispatch system offline for over 17 hours.
March 2018
April - May 2018
Ohio
Riverside, OH
(law enforcement & emergency services)
The Riverside Police AND Fire Departments were struck with ransomware leading to compromised networks and a ransomware infection.
Kansas
Topeka, KS
(utilities)
Experienced a cyberattack on their "pay online" site for water bills and utilities that exposed the information of as many as 10,000 residents.
Oct - Dec 2018
December 2018
New Jersey
Maplewood, NJ
(law enforcement)
Police department detected suspicious network activity and discoverd malware on their network that houses PII on their residents and financial data.
Florida
Tallahassee, FL
(payroll/citizen services)
Victim of a cyber theft of $498,000 as the attacker was able to breach the city's 3rd-party payroll service provider and reroute direct deposits of about 200 employee paychecks.
April 2019
May 2019
Maryland
Baltimore, MD
(citizen services)
Single ransomware attack cost the city $10 million in technological upgrades and $8.2 million in lost revenue.
Florida
Riviera Beach, FL
(law enforcement)
Police department employee opened a malicious email introducing a virus into the city's computer network shutting down email and direct deposit services.
May 2019
July 2019
California
Los Angeles, CA
(law enforcement)
IT agency supporting the LAPD was contacted by a malicious actor who gained access and downloaded the PII of 2500 LAPD officers, trainees and recruits AND 17,500 job applicants.
Florida
Jupiter, FL
(citizen services)
Ransomware attack disabled Jupiter's digital services including email, utility billing, online payment and record requests for weeks as worked to get backups online.
March 2020
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