British Columbia probes alleged cyberattack on its networks

The British Columbia government is investigating several cybersecurity incidents that have affected the Canadian province’s government networks. Based on initial reports, the government’s researchers claimed that there is no evidence that the attackers accessed or stole important data from the compromised networks.

However, the government still has an ongoing investigation that analyses the scope of impact of the breaches and determines what the hackers acquired during the campaign.

 

British Columbia has encountered sophisticated cybersecurity incidents.

 

According to investigations, the British Columbia government recently suffered various sophisticated cybersecurity operations that compromised their digital networks.

The government is working together with the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) and other relevant agencies to determine the extent of the incidents so they can implement necessary measures to protect their data and information systems.

Still, this compromised Canadian government has yet to reveal how many cybersecurity incidents affected its networks and when they occurred. Researchers attempted to contact the Premier’s Office’s Deputy Communications Director for more information, but no comment was immediately available.

However, a representative of this government stated that they would be transparent about the details of the hack since they know that the public has many questions about these incidents. In addition, they assured everyone that they would publish discoveries about the attacks once they uncovered them.

These cybercriminal incidents have plagued the Canadian government for months now. In November, Canada announced a data breach that exposed personal information owned by an undisclosed number of employees following the hacking of two suppliers of relocation services to Canadian government employees (BGRS and SIRVA) in October.

While the Canadian government could not identify the threat actors, the LockBit ransomware group claimed responsibility for accessing SIRVA’s computers on October 17 and leaking what they said were stolen archives containing 1.5TB of data.

Canadian entities have recently become a primary target for different threat groups. Therefore, private and public institutions should consider investing in a more potent cybersecurity solution to avoid these hackers. Canadians should also know about these attacks, as threat actors could initiate a malicious campaign targeting individual users.