Recently, The City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, suffered a ransomware attack that led them shut down their systems to avoid the malware spread.
The ransomware attack happened over a week ago. Unknown threat actors deployed a ransomware to attack The City of Tulsa’s network that disturbed their online services much.
GT Bynum, Tulsa Mayer, said in an interview, “We identified malware on our servers and as soon as we did that, in an abundance of caution, we shut all of our systems down.”
The incident however did not affect the 911 services or emergency response. Currently, all the employees are back to work.
But, the shutdowns of the City systems from them to access the online bill payment systems, utility billing and services through email.
Also, the websites for The City of Tulsa, the Tulsa City Council, Tulsa Police, and the Tulsa 311 websites are down. They are under maintenance.
Those who need to conduct businesses with City can use the City’s Phone systems. These are up and running.
Some amount of files was stolen as the ransomware operations steal data before deploying their ransomware. But, the attack did not affect the customers’ data, confirmed The City from their Facebook page.
Tulsa Police Department’s Facebook page says, “The City of Tulsa is experiencing technical difficulties on many outward facing programs that help serve the citizens of Tulsa due to a ransomware attack. No customer information has been comprised, but residents will not be able to access City websites and there will be delays in network services.”
It becomes a scourge for US interest that on every new day a new ransomware attacks and millions of victims paying millions of dollars ransoms.
A special Ransomware Task Force has thus been created to combat the increasing threat of ransomware. They will analyze the problem and provide recommended solutions to lawmakers.
