911 services in parts of California come under cyber attack

California's 911 services person been disrupted by ransomware amid a spate of cyber attacks connected nan Golden State. 

Police and occurrence emergency dispatch 911 services successful parts of Southern California person been disrupted by a DragonForce cyber incident that occurred connected June 16.

The cities impacted by nan ransomware onslaught include: Manhattan Beach, Culver City, Hermosa Beach and El Segundo, arsenic good arsenic Hawthorne and Gardena, according to nan South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority (SBRPCA).

The hacking incident occurred not agelong aft nan ransomware group victimised Yakult Australia and allegedly stole 95GB of information from nan company's Australian and New Zealand IT systems. 

The group besides claimed it stole much than 400GB of information from Coca-Cola Singapore.

DragonForce's largest reported heist was a successful onslaught connected Ohio Lottery successful December 2023 erstwhile it stole much than 1.5 cardinal worker and customer records amounting to 90GB of data.

Ohio Lottery said nan onslaught impacted astir 538,000 individuals, according to Data Breach Today. 

Meanwhile, an urgent informing has been issued to each 1.46 cardinal iPhone users aft tech experts uncovered a caller cyberattack targeting Apple IDs.

Bad actors are utilizing SMS phishing campaigns that nonstop messages claiming to beryllium from Apple, prompting users to sojourn a nexus to an 'important request' astir iCloud.

California-based Symantec information patient discovered nan onslaught this month, informing nan links lead to clone websites that impulse users to manus complete their Apple ID information.

Additionally, a cyberattack has wreaked havoc connected infirmary machine systems successful 5 states, forcing immoderate emergency rooms to adjacent and ambulances to beryllium diverted.

Many superior attraction services remained closed connected Friday arsenic information experts worked to find nan grade of nan problem and resoluteness it.

The 'data information incident' began Thursday astatine accommodation operated by Prospect Medical Holdings, which is based successful California and has hospitals and clinics location and successful Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.