The Sacramento Bee, a newspaper that is published in Sacramento, was recently hit with a ransomeware in two of its databases that were on a third -party server. It was first discovered by an employee followed by a tip from a reporter. Among one of the affected databases, it contained California voter registration data that was received from the California Secretary of State for reporting purposes. The Bee is reaching out to those whose information were compromised.
https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/sacramento-bee-databases-hit-with-ransomware-attack/d/d-id/1331023
Hi Richard,
The one good thing that the company did I feel was to immediately inform the users about the leak. However, I am not quite sure how protected the 3rd party database were. I feel organizations should have their in-house database for most of the critical transactions and customer information, rather than outsourcing it to 3rd party server for cost saving purposes. This is primarily the reason the above incident has happened.