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Rhode Island Hit by Major Cyberattack, Says McKee
GoLocalProv News Team ^ | 12-13-24 | GoLocalProv News Team

Posted on 12/13/2024 6:37:26 PM PST by dynachrome

Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee announced late on Friday that the state’s data system has been hit with a major cyberattack. McKee will hold an unprecedented press conference Friday at 7:30 PM regarding a cybersecurity breach of the RIBridges system. That system is managed by Deloitte, one of Rhode Island’s largest tech vendors, and the exposed data includes HealthSource, Medicaid, and SNAP.

According to McKee’s office, on December 13, [today] the State was informed by its vendor, Deloitte, that there was a major security threat to the RIBridges system. In response, we have proactively taken the system offline so that the State and Deloitte can work to address the threat and restore the system as quickly as possible. Additionally, Deloitte confirmed that there is a high probability that a cybercriminal has obtained files with personally identifiable information from RIBridges.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 202412; 20241213; computers; cyberattack; cybersecurity; hacking; rhodeisland
include but are not limited to:

• Medicaid,

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),

• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF),

• Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP),

• Health coverage purchased through HealthSource RI

• Rhode Island Works (RIW),

• Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) and

• General Public Assistance (GPA) Program.

1 posted on 12/13/2024 6:37:26 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Must be those drones that everybody is seeing.


2 posted on 12/13/2024 6:39:17 PM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw

They did go over RI I think.


3 posted on 12/13/2024 6:42:52 PM PST by Beowulf9 (c)
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To: dynachrome

We should probably respond with missile strikes to these attacks.

Then again, I don’t know how many routine attacks the US performs on other countries.


4 posted on 12/13/2024 6:47:48 PM PST by fruser1
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To: dynachrome

How would these dumb RI democrats even know anything was wrong?


5 posted on 12/13/2024 6:48:59 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dynachrome

Swarming drones and cyberattacks. Why isn’t Elon Musk investigating this?


6 posted on 12/13/2024 6:50:57 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: dennisw

Stewie Griffin?


7 posted on 12/13/2024 6:52:16 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: dynachrome

Am I the only one that sees a pattern here?

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8 posted on 12/13/2024 6:52:24 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: dennisw

One of the least helpful things said about the hundreds (mor more) of the drones sighted: “What kind of attackers would only do something to New Jersey?”

Not funny. Did the Chinese balloon surveillance plan last year only apply to the several states it crossed before the Atlantic Ocean? So nothing wrong with it?

And the Wuhan deliberate spread of Covid infection went to the US and Italy at first so does that make it ineffective?

Now Connecticut and others have drones AND the first Chinese national was caught in California after he did surveillance images of a military base with his drone and was heading for China to leave on a plane.


9 posted on 12/13/2024 6:57:16 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: NetAddicted

Swarming drones and cyberattacks. Why isn’t Elon Musk investigating this?

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How do you know he isn’t?


10 posted on 12/13/2024 7:03:22 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: dynachrome

That one time a welfare paid benefit system was shut down....

Computer glitch disrupts food, cash assistance benefit cards

CT Mirror
Nov 16, 2012 — The glitch means that public assistance recipients can’t use the cards to access benefits from cash assistance programs or the Supplemental ...
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Several others later on.
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People did not like this.


11 posted on 12/13/2024 7:07:40 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: All

I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet anywheres...

But I was just outside and there is a large rainbow circle around the moon. I have never seen this before at night and it is directly over my house right now.


12 posted on 12/13/2024 7:45:34 PM PST by A child of Yah (I once was lost, but now I'm found, twas grace that set me free ... thank you LORD)
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To: dynachrome

Just leave it shut down and cut taxes, I say.


13 posted on 12/13/2024 7:57:31 PM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: A child of Yah

That’s called a moon dog. It’s the ice crystals in the atmosphere. If it happens during the day it’s a sundog


14 posted on 12/13/2024 8:02:01 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper

Thank you so much. I reposted on another thread too.

I guess I need to get out and look up more often...LoL


15 posted on 12/13/2024 8:08:24 PM PST by A child of Yah (I once was lost, but now I'm found, twas grace that set me free ... thank you LORD)
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To: A child of Yah

I’ve actually seen a double sun dog once. Very rare


16 posted on 12/13/2024 8:52:28 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper

A Mylar weather testing balloon is easily mistaken for a car sized drone.


17 posted on 12/14/2024 1:07:22 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: dynachrome

Are they still in the union? Who knew?


18 posted on 12/14/2024 1:22:17 AM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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To: dynachrome

why because RI is overun by liberal progressive radical Marxists


19 posted on 12/14/2024 2:35:04 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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