Holy shit that’s a lot of services affected. Sounds like they got totally owned.
Sounds like everyone involved in lowering the security budget should have their genitals on the chopping block. I’ll bet the IT staff could make a list in seconds.
Side note, a few of these services like GIS and genealogical info could be posted as open datasets and then would not be affected by incidents like this.
The Toronto Public Library (TPL) took a major service hit for like 6 months following a cyber-attack. I think they’re at full-service now, since going down in September or October. Now this, a much more widespread attack in Hamilton, just down the highway. If this isn’t an alarm to increase municipal cybersecurity I don’t know what is. This is a real drag to Hamiltonians. It took the TPL like a month just to fully grasp the extent of the loss of service (and as far as I know assessments of how much sensitive data [eg, employee SINs] were illicitly accessed are still ongoing). I hope this gets fixed more quickly!
Our municipalities and governments absolutely do not pay what they should on infrastructure like this.
That’s more or less my thinking as well: looks like they’re losing the arms race
