State officers mentioned lots of of 1000’s of Rhode Island residents may very well be affected by a cyberattack on the state’s on-line portal for social providers, with a “excessive likelihood” that personally identifiable info was breached.
In keeping with an replace from Governor Dan McKee’s workplace, the assault focused RIBridges, which Rhode Island residents use to use for and entry packages comparable to Medicaid and the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP).
The assault additionally focused the Healthsource RI insurance coverage market. McKee’s workplace mentioned “any particular person who has acquired or utilized for well being protection and/or well being and human providers packages or advantages may very well be impacted by this leak.”
The data accessed by the cyberattackers might embody names, addresses, dates of start, Social Safety numbers, and banking info.
The RIBridges system is operated by Deloitte, which first notified the state of a possible cyberattack on December 5 — however McKee’s workplace mentioned it wasn’t clear then that delicate info had been breached. On Friday, December 13, Deloitte confirmed that there was “malicious code” within the system and labored with the state to “proactively” take the system down to deal with the risk.
Within the meantime, the state mentioned Rhode Island residents can nonetheless use paper purposes to use for advantages.
The New York Instances reviews that at a press convention Friday, state’s chief digital officer Brian Tardiff mentioned cybercriminals claiming accountability for the assault have threatened to launch the info except they obtain a fee.
