The scope of Monday’s ransomware attack is starting to come into focus as details about just how many devices had to be wiped was shared at today’s Cyber Security Committee meeting.
Deputy CIO Neil Underwood says no personal data was compromised, but to free impacted devices from the attack, they had to wipe and restore a lot of them.
“We have approximately 5,000 servers in our enterprise that we actively run every day," Underwood said. "The impact was to about 10 percent of those in our infrastructure.”
Underwood reiterated that ransomware attacks only prevent information from being accessed by the user and does not mean that data was stolen by the perpetrator.
He says the state’s newer PCs fared well, but many of the older members of the fleet that were affected have taken longer to get back up and running.
“On the workstation side, we have over 30,000 in-user devices that we support," he noted. "In excess of 1,500 of those were impacted.”
The Office of Motor Vehicles has been down all week, but Underwood says they’ll have all state services up by next week, if at a limited capacity.
“Our target is to have, even if slightly impaired operations, full operations across every impacted agency by close of business on Monday,” Underwood said.