A city in Ontario’s Muskoka area has shared extra particulars a couple of cybersecurity incident earlier this month.
The City of Huntsville says it was hit on March 10 by a ransomware assault, by which very important digital info is held hostage for fee.
Denise Corry, the city’s chief administrative officer, says an “unauthorized consumer” infiltrated the city’s programs and knowledge was compromised.
It stays unclear if the compromised knowledge consists of private info.
Providers are nonetheless within the strategy of being restored, and officers say the city has reviewed and strengthened its programs to mitigate future danger.
The assault in Huntsville got here two weeks after officers in Hamilton discovered of the same cybersecurity incident focusing on that metropolis.
