Breaches and incidents
City of Radford (Virginia): “possible data incident” knocks out city internet, email and phones
In a Facebook notice reported by WDBJ, the city said “All office emails and most phone lines are NOT available at this time”; circuit court offices closed.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- In a Facebook notice reported by WDBJ, the city said “All office emails and most phone lines are NOT available at this time”; circuit court offices closed. WDBJ later dated the outage to Thursday 1 Oct.
- Root cause: not disclosed. The city said “Our investigation is ongoing, there is limited information at this point”; whether data was taken is not stated.
- No attacker named.
- The city engaged cybersecurity professionals, legal counsel and state and federal law enforcement. By 5 Oct most services were restored except the DMV Select office and online GIS tax cards; September utility bills were delayed.