OAKLAND — The massive ransomware attack that exposed reams of sensitive personal data stored by the city is now the subject of a class-action lawsuit by city employees who say their information was…
OAKLAND — The massive ransomware attack that
The lawsuit, filed in late April by police services technician Hada Gonzalez, seeks monetary damages and attorney’s costs from the city, plus a requirement for Oakland officials “to protect, including through encryption, all data collected through the course of business.” Neither Gonzalez, who isn’t a member of the union, nor the union itself received a response from the city — and both parties are now plaintiffs in the class-action filing, along with several hundred other city employees.
“It’s potentially all City employees — ever — whose info was accessed and, potentially, all persons who gave information of any kind to the City,” attorney Scott Cole, whose Oakland-based firm specializes in data breach cases, said in an email. An internal report reviewed by city officials last year, months before the attack, had warned that “staffing and resource constraints” were leaving the city vulnerable to “ransomware attacks, cyberattacks, and other threats.”
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