From Freespoke News:
According to the Yahoo News Canada article, they don't believe the hackers were working for the Russian Government but, honestly, why don't they?
Russia is known for having NGO hacking groups that raise money for the government by selling and extorting botu personal data and government data. So why not even suspect it? As usual, the government didn't provide any evidence for their assertions oncwhat was even hacked, so we don't even know if it happened. But just figured this was worth bringing up.
Louisiana and Oregon are the only states that we know of so far that civilians were affected, so it might be a good idea to freeze your funds or get new cards and such.
The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang's global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. - Yahoo News Canada (middle)
The Cl0p ransomware syndicate behind the hack announced last week on its dark-web site that its victims, who it suggested numbered in the hundreds, had until Wednesday to get in touch to negotiate a ransom or risk having sensitive stolen data dumped online. - Los Angeles Times (left)
But for others among what could be hundreds of victims from industry to higher education — including patrons of at least two state motor vehicle agencies — the hack was beginning to show some serious impacts. - Fortune (right)
According to the Yahoo News Canada article, they don't believe the hackers were working for the Russian Government but, honestly, why don't they?
Russia is known for having NGO hacking groups that raise money for the government by selling and extorting botu personal data and government data. So why not even suspect it? As usual, the government didn't provide any evidence for their assertions oncwhat was even hacked, so we don't even know if it happened. But just figured this was worth bringing up.
Louisiana and Oregon are the only states that we know of so far that civilians were affected, so it might be a good idea to freeze your funds or get new cards and such.
