"Federal Agency Investigating Dallas Ransomware Attack, Number Impacted up to 30,253"
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that it is investigating Dallas’ ransomware attack from earlier this year. The city reported the data breach to the agency earlier this month, saying personal information from 30,253 people through Dallas’ self-insured group health plans were exposed during the breach, which started April 7 but wasn’t detected by the city until May 3. The number of individuals affected recently reported is higher than the 26,212 people the city reported earlier this month as being affected by the cyberattack to the state attorney general’s office. City officials still haven’t publicly disclosed all the departments where information was possibly stolen and several other key details of the data breach, such as how it happened. The city has sent around 27,000 letters to mostly employees, retirees, and their relatives giving notice that their names, home addresses, social security numbers, date of birth, medical diagnoses, and other information were exposed to hackers, and offering two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.