New: Dallas City Council approves $8.6 million in payments for ransomware attack response
and began notifying people potentially impacted. Dallas officials said they knew as of June 14 that hackers had access to city-stored personal information.The Texas attorney general’s office published Monday
“If you got the letter, it doesn’t mean you were a victim of fraud or that there’s any concern that you need to have as it relates to someone using that information,” Fortune said, “Although we can’t rule that out, obviously.” The City Council met in closed session after the vote to discuss matters related to the ransomware attack.City Manager T.C. Broadnax didn’t respond to questions on whether the mayor and council members were told the amount of people impacted by the ransomware attack before Tuesday and why city officials didn’t announce in June that they knew people’s personal information had been accessed by hackers. Catherine Cuellar, the city’s communications director, declined comment on the same questions.
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