Holy shit that's a lot of services affected. Sounds like they got totally owned.
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
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Sounds like everyone involved in lowering the security budget should have their genitals on the chopping block. I'll bet the IT staff could make a list in seconds.
The Toronto Public Library (TPL) took a major service hit for like 6 months following a cyber-attack. I think they're at full-service now, since going down in September or October. Now this, a much more widespread attack in Hamilton, just down the highway. If this isn't an alarm to increase municipal cybersecurity I don't know what is. This is a real drag to Hamiltonians. It took the TPL like a month just to fully grasp the extent of the loss of service (and as far as I know assessments of how much sensitive data [eg, employee SINs] were illicitly accessed are still ongoing). I hope this gets fixed more quickly!
Our municipalities and governments absolutely do not pay what they should on infrastructure like this.
That's more or less my thinking as well: looks like they're losing the arms race
Side note, a few of these services like GIS and genealogical info could be posted as open datasets and then would not be affected by incidents like this.