Cyber Attack Targets State Connecticut State Agencies
Return To ArticleSome of Connecticut’s state agencies experienced a cyber attack late Friday afternoon, according to the Department of Administrative Services.
Starting late Friday evening, the State’s security monitoring system alerted security teams that it had detected a suspicious event that matched the profile for a ransomware virus, said a spokesperson for the department.
In an email obtained by NBC Connecticut, the ransomware virus was identified as the WannaCry virus.
The total number of infected machines was 160 across 12 different agencies, according to the email. The names of which agencies were impacted was not made immediately available.
