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<\/a><\/p>\nSeal Beach appears to have been the subject of a cyberattack.
City officials have confirmed \u201cunusual activity\u201d online but provided no details.
DeXpose.com, a platform that monitors the so-called darkweb, reported on March 2 that Seal Beach had been threatened with a cyberattack. DeXpose.com described the attack as a threatened ransomware attack.
The Sun contacted City Manager Patrick Gallegos and the Seal Beach Police Department for comment.
Gallegos said the SBPD would provide a statement.
District Two Councilman Ben Wong this morning said on the record that the city was working on it.
\u201cThe City detected unusual activity within its network,\u201d wrote SBPD Lt. Julia Clasby in a March 3 email.
\u201cUpon discovery, we promptly took steps to secure the environment and began an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the issue,\u201d Clasby wrote.
\u201cAs our investigation into this matter is ongoing, we are unable to provide further details at this time,\u201d Clasby wrote.
\u201cWe are monitoring our systems and working to investigate this matter fully,\u201d Clasby wrote.
This was not the first time Seal Beach had to deal with an online attack. On December 2019, Seal Beach was the victim of a ransomware attack\u2014which is best defined as a program that takes a computer or computer system hostage until money is paid by the individual, business, or government agency that has been attacked. (See \u201cCity of Seal Beach victim of ransomware attack,\u201d at sunnews.org.)
\u201cAttackers require the victim to pay a ransom, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, in order to unlock the files and data on the victims\u2019 computer systems,\u201d said the unsigned city of Seal Beach press release of December 2019.
More information about the incident was released in June 2022. The Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center Cyber Unit and the Seal Beach Police Department IT team reportedly found a \u201cvulnerability\u201d in the software used by Seal Beach\u2019s IT vendor that crippled 171 computer systems including the Lifeguard and police networks. (For details see \u201cSeal Beach honors public safety officers\u201d at sunnews.org and scroll down to \u201cRansomeware\u201d attack.)<\/p>\n
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