A ransomware attack that crippled the city of Wichita’s network for more than a month starting in May was limited to a Wichita Police Department records system, city officials said Wednesday. That means the Russian hacker group — LockBit — that claimed credit for the attack did not access bank card numbers, social security numbers or other private information about city customers or residents — unless the Police Department kept those records as part of an investigation. The breached records include potentially sensitive information about witnesses, victims and suspects in 77,000 police cases. They included incident reports, arrest reports, supplemental reports, property reports, accident reports and traffic citations, City Manager Robert Layton said. Layton, who has previously avoided disclosing key details about the cyber attack, said on Wednesday that the city’s internal investigation is now considered closed, so he can provide more information to the public. “We haven’t really been able to get out the information on the data itself, and I think that was one of the most important things we wanted to talk about, to kind of ease people’s concerns about their water bill information, for instance, and payment information, that type of thing,” Layton said.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
