![]() ![]() It’s also impacted state governments in Minnesota and Illinois. No other federal agencies have confirmed being impacted. The Department of Energy said it “took immediate steps” to mitigate the impact of the hack after learning that records from two department “entities” had been compromised. ![]() The cyberattack has targeted federal and state agencies. “Once you’re compromised, there begins an arduous process of ‘how far in did they get in?’ and ‘what did they take?’ That’s typically weeks, and sometimes months.” “Nobody knows the full extent of this, and that’s the way these cyber compromises work,” Robert Cattanach, a partner specializing in cybersecurity at the law firm Dorsey & Whitney and a former trial lawyer for the Department of Justice, told CNN Friday. The states did not blame anyone in particular for the hack but federal officials have attributed a broader hacking campaign using the same software vulnerability to a Russian ransomware gang that calls itself Clop. Separately, state agencies said late Thursday that millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon had their data compromised in a security breach. While the scope of the attack is not yet fully known, officials at the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Thursday that “several federal agencies… have experienced intrusions” and suggested a number of businesses could be impacted as well. A growing number of businesses, universities and government agencies have been targeted in a global cyberattack by Russian cybercriminals and are now working to understand how much data was compromised.
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