West Chester Township investigates second cyberattack this month

pWest Chester Township is dealing with the fallout of a second cyberattack this monthppOn Tuesday morning cyber attackers the township calls a malicious group struck targeting the email serverppAt approximately 645 am we were notified of a potential cyberattack and data breach said West Chester Township public information officer Brianna Wooten We got a team together were handling it and were also in the middle of a forensic investigation to get to the bottom of what happenedppWooten said the township is working with the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center to track down those responsible and secure the informationppThose claiming to be the hackers sent a note to some West Chester employees saying that they had stolen two terabytes of information including the personal information of residents and employeesppWe dont currently know what data they have or dont have What we can say is we know there was some kind of intrusion we dont know what kind of data they got or may have access to and we have not received any information that would verify the claims they may have made Wooten saidppThe first cyber attack against West Chester was Aug12 Wooten said that was contained quicklyppThe city of Middletown was hit this month by a cyber attack too They are still working to get systems workingppLiberty Township was also a target recentlyppWhat most of these sort mediumscale hackers want they just want money said Dave HatterppHatter is a cyber security expert with Intrust IT but he knows more about this specific issue because hes also the mayor of Ft Wright KentuckyppHe says hackers find municipalities an easy targetppI think because of the nature of what they do Hatter said They have a lot more leverage against a government agency whose services are interrupted than they do against a private businessppHearst Television participates in various affiliate marketing programs which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sitesp