The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles announced today, Jan. 3, that it has been hit by an apparent cyberattack that has disrupted its systems and a leading tech industry website reports that the attackers have given the agency a deadline to respond.
Courtney Gladney of HACLA said the agency was working with “law enforcement and forensics to investigate the incident.” A statement from the agency said that HACLA was working to “confirm its impact to our systems, and to restore full functionality securely to our environment as soon as possible.” . In that case, Los Angeles Unified School District data was posted on the dark web by an international crime syndicate but it did not contain sensitive personal information, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced on Oct. 3.
The group released 500 gigabytes of hacked data following LAUSD’s Sept. 30 announcement that the district would not give in to the ransom demands.