The PLAY group has warned that on December 19, it will start disclosing data that was stolen from Antwerp. The information that was stolen remains unknown.
The IT, email, and phone services in Antwerp were interrupted last week as a result of a ransomware attack on Digipolis, the IT firm in charge of overseeing the city's IT infrastructure.
According to VRT News, a cyberattack on Monday also affected the city of Diest, which has around 20,000 citizens. The portal is used by the ransomware gang to showcase victims.
According to VRT News, a cyberattack on Monday also affected Diest, a city of around 20,000 people. The page is used by the ransomware organization to highlight victims.
According to journalist Tim Verheyden of VRT News, Play is well-known in the hacker community. The United States, Canada, Bulgaria, and Switzerland have all experienced significant cyberattacks from them, and now they claim the attack on the City of Antwerp.
Brett Callow, an Emsisoft security analyst, saw that the Play ransomware campaign began mentioning Antwerp as one of its victims over the weekend. According to this Antwerp item on the data leak website, the incident resulted in the theft of 557 GB of data, including personal data, passports, IDs, and financial papers.
Data from the city has not yet been disclosed, despite the threat actors' assurances that they will start doing so in a week if a ransom is not paid.
Johan de Muynck, general manager of Zorgbedrijf Antwerpen an Antwerp Healthcare, issued a warning that the system the business relied on to keep track of who ought to receive which medicines was not functioning at the moment. Instead of conventional computerized prescriptions, patients currently receive paper prescriptions that have been signed by doctors.
Despite the fact that the server issues had not been fixed, Zorgbedrijf Antwerpen announced in a statement posted to its website on Monday that limited telephone access to customer service was now available as a result of an emergency fix.
