Jonathan Greig reports:
The Anchorage Police Department said it took a range of actions to address a recent cyberattack on one of its technology service providers.
A police department spokesperson told Recorded Future News that the incident relates to a cyberattack involving data migration firm Whitebox Technologies, which alerted the police department of a security incident on January 7. The company did not respond to requests for comment.
The city’s IT department “shut down the relevant APD servers and disabled the vendor and all third-party service provider access.” Anchorage is Alaska’s largest city and is home to about 300,000 people.
Read more at The Record.
As of publication, there is no statement on Whitebox’s website and no ransomware gang appears to have claimed credit for the attack .