{"id":17559,"date":"2018-12-21T19:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=17559"},"modified":"2018-12-21T19:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T00:01:08","slug":"municipality-updates-on-ransomware-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/21\/municipality-updates-on-ransomware-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipality Updates on Ransomware Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, December 9, 2018, the Municipality of Wawa became the victim of a sophisticated cyber-attack in which the Town\u2019s network was illegally accessed and infected with ransomware. The malware was able to encrypt a number of Town systems rendering them unusable. Although the Municipality\u2019s IT staff worked quickly to disable the network, a number of the Municipal systems were confirmed to be impacted, and the Municipality received a ransom demand in exchange for a decryption key.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Critical functions, such as waste and water management systems, were not affected and continued to be operational, as the IT infrastructure for those services were deliberately isolated for security reasons.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Municipality of Wawa is committed to protecting the privacy of all citizens and as a result it worked with a Third Party cybersecurity firm and law enforcement to address the incident. All systems were restored and secured. Investigations have not found any evidence of a privacy breach.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Municipality of Wawa will continue with its investigations, and provide updates, as needed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, December 9, 2018, the Municipality of Wawa became the victim of a sophisticated cyber-attack in which the Town\u2019s network was illegally accessed and infected with ransomware. The malware &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[1866],"class_list":["post-17559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","tag-ransomware"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 00:58:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17560,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions\/17560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}