- Puerto de Seattle sent notification letters to the people affected in the Ransomware attack in August 2024
- The letter was sent to approximately 90,000 people.
- The attack was made by the Ransomware Rhysida group
The port of Seattle, the United States government agency that supervises the port and city airport, began sending data violation notification letters to the people affected by the Ransomware attack in August 2024, revealing that around 90,000 were affected.
“The port of Seattle announced today that notification letters have been sent by mail to people whose data were affected in the cyber attack of August 2024,” said the company on its website.
“This website notice is intended to provide the same information included in the notification letters to people for whom the port has insufficient or outdated contact information.”
Rhysida blamed
In the letter, Port of Seattle said he suffered a cyber attack on August 24, 2024. After analyzing the attack, he discovered that the attackers “agreed and discharged personal information from the port systems”, including the inherited systems used for the data of employees, contractors and parking.
“The port has very little information about airport or maritime passengers, and systems processing payments were not affected,” he explained more thoroughly.
The data that were taken, mainly belonging to the current port and previous and other employees and contractors, included complete names, birth dates, social security numbers (or last four digits), driver’s license or other government identification card numbers and medical information.
The agency notified about 90,000 people from the incident, most of whom (around 71,000) are from the state of Washington.
The letter also confirms that the Ransomware Rhysida group was behind the attack. Although criminals demanded payment in exchange for releasing the systems and deleting stolen data, the port decided not to pay.
“We have refused to pay the demanded rescue and, as a result, the actor can respond by publishing data that claim to have stolen in his place Darkweb,” said the port of Seattle at that time.
Rhysida is one of the largest ransomware operators, since he assumed responsibility for attacks against the British library, the Chilean army, the insomniac games and many others.
Through Bleepingcomputer
