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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office said it "has not yet determined what personal information on its network is impacted," but it could include "names, addresses, email addresses, Social Security numbers, health insurance and medical information, tax information, and driver’s license numbers."
By Benjamin Cox on April 30, 2021 at 12:14pm The Illinois Attorney General’s Office has announced that a ransomware attack has compromised the office’s computer network. While the extent of the information compromised is currently under investigation, the Attorney General’s office is launching a toll-free hotline and providing additional information to the public via its website. The Attorney General’s office, aided by law enforcement and external technology experts, continues to evaluate the full extent of the compromise, including identifying the information that wa...
A “ransomware” group potentially linked to Russia has uploaded to a website scores of documents it says were stolen from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office over two weeks after the state’s top law enforcement officer first reported his office’s computer network was compromised. Raoul had declined to publicly provide details of the hack, but on Thursday, he issued a follow-up statement, saying his office has set up a toll-free hotline for those seeking more information on the breach, which could include “names, addresses, email addresses, Social Security numbers, health...