The Greater Richmond Transit Company was hacked twice in four months, the organization confirmed this week. It had not publicly disclosed one of those incidents.
A database that compiles ransomware attacks listed the incidents: one reported in December 2023 and one in February 2024. A GRTC spokesperson confirmed the first breach happened over Thanksgiving weekend last year.
“Around Thanksgiving, GRTC experienced a computer network disruption that temporarily impacted certain applications and parts of the GRTC network,” spokesperson Henry Bendon wrote at the time of the initial breach. “In response, our IT staff quickly discovered and restored our computer network. All services are currently running as scheduled and GRTC does not expect any additional disruptions for riders at this time.”…