NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Metro Vancouver Transit Police say the agency was targeted by hackers who accessed almost 200 of its files as part of a global wave of attacks that U.S. officials have blamed on a Russian cyber-extortion gang.
The police service says in a news release that a thorough review is underway to determine what information was contained in the 186 files that were accessed in the attack on a third-party file transfer system called MOVEit.
The agency says it's not expected the incident will have any impact on investigations or prosecutions. MOVEit, which is widely used by businesses and government agencies to share files, was hit recently by an extortion syndicate that last week gave its victims a deadline to negotiate a ransom or risk having sensitive data dumped online.
Other known victims include the Nova Scotia provincial government, Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles, Oregon's Department of Transportation, British Airways, the British Broadcasting Company and the British drugstore chain Boots.
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