Dallas Ransomware Attack: Hackers Steal 800K City Files

Hackers who targeted the City of Dallas in the alleged ransomware attack have stolen nearly 1.2 terabytes of data, which equals a sum of 819,000 files, reports City officials.

City’s Chief Information Officer Bill Zielinski describes that the threat actors gained access to 230 City servers, along with around 1,000 computers and more than 1,100 workstations. Following the attack, the City disabled 100 of its servers.

According to Zielinski, “As part of the remediation and restoration activity, every server, workstation and other host device was thoroughly reviewed for potential impact.”

While the City employees were supposed to issue an ‘After Action Report,’ to the Dallas City Council in regards to the ransomware attack on Wednesday, the affair was postponed when the council members spent the entire evening debating amendments to the next FY23-24 budget.

Adding to this, the council had scheduled time as 9 a.m., but the Council members did not mark their presence till 8 p.m.

Later, coming back to the original topic of discussion, the presentation displayed before the council noted that the hacker group ‘Royal Ransomware,’ was behind the attacks and was responsible for gaining illicit access to 1.169 terabytes of City data between April 7 and May 3 this year.

Dallas officials further noted that the reason behind the dysfunctional City services (that stayed for months) was in fact due to the said rans

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