Ransomware Attack at KY Phone Co-Op
INCIDENT
Jamestown, Kentucky-based Duo County Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. and Cumberland Cellular, LLC (doing business under the shared branding Duo Broadband) suffered a ransomware attack that exposed personally identifiable information.
Duo Broadband suffered a security incident that may have exposed some of your personal information. There were 42,518 victims in the incident, the company said.
“On February 13, Duo Broadband discovered a data security incident in which a cyber threat actor attempted to disrupt our systems in a possible effort to deploy ransomware, and solicit a ransom payment from us,” the company said in a letter to victims of the incident.
Type of Malware
No Malware identified
Threat Source
No threat source identified