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(KRON) — Contra Costa County’s bus service and paratransit operator, Contra Costa Transportation Authority (County Connection), shared the discovery of a recent cybersecurity attack on Friday.
County Connection said “rogue actors” may have accessed files and data stored within its network. Although transit authorities do not yet know what data exactly was compromised, the bus service operator has taken steps to “secure” its network and hired a specialist cybersecurity firm to investigate the incident. said.
“County Connection is currently tracking the amount of time data was stored on our servers at the time of this incident to understand what the fraudsters may have accessed and to whom that data pertains.” “We are conducting a detailed investigation,” said Ryan, County Connection Marketing Manager. Jones said.
County Connection said the investigation is ongoing and address information is being determined to directly notify affected individuals.
At the time of this report, County Connection said there was no evidence to suggest that customers' financial account numbers or Social Security numbers had been compromised. The bus authority will notify affected individuals as soon as it is legal.
“Incidents like this are becoming all too common across the country, and we at County Connection
Please recognize the importance of this event. Thanks to the hard work and preparation of the IT department
Team, we took the appropriate steps quickly to address this,” said General Bill Churchill.
County Connection Manager. “We sincerely regret any concern this incident may have caused.”
causing people to be affected. ”
