COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH ) — An estimated half a million people were impacted in the ransomware attack that hit Columbus in late July.
NBC4 Investigates broke the news that hundreds of thousands of people’s sensitive information was compromised, despite Mayor Andrew Ginther’s initial claims that the data lacked value.
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Now, we are getting our first estimate of the impact, but it isn’t coming directly from the city of Columbus and was not mentioned in Monday night’s update to city council. We know this because the attorney general of Maine posted an update on his website.
The legal team for the city of Columbus, Dinsmore, sent a regulatory filing to the state of Maine, letting it know that 24 Maine residents were impacted by the Columbus breach.
In this notice , Dinsmore wrote, “Total number of persons affected (including residents): 500000.”
This estimate and notification to another state were not mentioned in Monday night’s update to council. There was also no mention of the status of the breach report, which will show us what data held by the city was accessed and stolen by the ransomware group, which posted it on the dark web.