The Villajoyosa City Council has restarted “almost all” of its operations following a cyberattack last Wednesday, July 2nd, which forced public services to serve citizens manually.
The Councillor for Information Systems, Pedro Ramis (PP), said that “all services have been restored and the information has been recovered, except for a significant portion of the file database annexes, which are in the process of being gradually restored.”
The councillor assured that “all user interfaces are now working” and that “activity is normal, not at the cruising speed we were experiencing, but it cannot be said that anything is not working.”
Ramis said, “once it’s over, an estimate could be made of whether it has had an economic impact,” but “it would be difficult to calculate.” He also stated, “The staff is very involved.”
The causes are currently under investigation
Regarding the causes, he claimed that it was a ransomware cyberattack, which “blocks computers, encrypts data, and announces that you either pay them or you’ll never have them again.” “These are overseas attacks that are currently classified as terrorism under the law. They combine this with other similar attacks to draw inferences, but in any event, what we need to do is secure ourselves better and place a higher priority on computer security,” he added.
Ramis also stated that the Guardia Civil is collaborating with forensic police to undertake the necessary investigations into what occurred, adding that “there has been no consideration” of resorting to the cash asked by the attackers to fix the issue. “It is not only unlawful but also immoral. We haven’t even asked anything else. He continued, “It’s just a note they leave, and the incident is just an anecdote for us.”
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