February 17, 2025

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B.C. regional government acknowledges cyber attack

A British Columbia municipality has acknowledged getting the sufferer of a cyber assault just about two months in the past.

The admission built right now arrives immediately after the LockBit ransomware gang mentioned the Sunshine Coast Regional District on its details breach web-site.

“On Thursday, September 8 and for most of Friday, September 9, computer servers at the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) were being offline,” the municipality claimed in a assertion. “This induced an e-mail outage at the SCRD and our website was also offline. The SCRD’s servers have been back again on the net inside of 16 hrs with quite very little influence to solutions.

“At this time, it seems as nevertheless the SCRD has been a sufferer of a deliberate attempt by criminals to obtain data on our servers. In reaction, the SCRD has contracted an external cyber protection agency to assist with our investigation and the Sunshine Coastline RCMP has also opened a file on this cyber incident.

“Out of an abundance of caution, the SCRD has also notified the [British Columbia] Office of the Information and Privateness Commissioner (OIPC) which is witnessed as very best exercise in these situations.

“The SCRD is at present doing work to decide if any private info might have been compromised on our servers during the cyber incident. If this is the scenario then the SCRD will follow established strategies by means of the OIPC with notifications to these influenced.”

Headquartered in the city of Sechelt, the regional district is unfold across some 3,700 sq. km. It has a populace of about 32,000 that incorporates the city of Gibson, the Schelet Indian Govt District, and many Indigenous reserves. Schelet is about a two-and-fifty percent hour drive and ferry trip from Vancouver. According to Wikipedia, the district is commonly accessed by means of ferry, boat or aircraft no streets join it with the rest of the province.

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