Albemarle County is extending an offer to provide credit monitoring and other services to people who may have had their personal information stolen in a cybersecurity attack earlier this year.
“On the morning of June 11, 2025, Albemarle County discovered issues with our IT systems and quickly determined that we were the victim of a ransomware incident,” reads an information release sent out December 17, 2025. “Ransomware is a type of malicious software that cybercriminals use to break into computer systems and lock up important data.”
The incident began the night before. The Charlottesville Daily Progress reported on July 15 that a group called INC Ransom was behind the attack…