Cyberattack hits Downtown Brooklyn sites of NYC Law Department
New York City’s law department was hit with a cyberattack that forced officials to take the 1,000-lawyer agency offline, but Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believes no data was compromised in the hack.
“To this hour we have not seen information compromised or a ransom demand,” the Democratic mayor said at a virtual news briefing on Tuesday, adding that the investigation was “evolving.”
City officials said they disconnected the law department’s computers from the city’s network on Sunday, after discovering the cyberattack.