{"id":5935,"date":"2021-12-03T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T08:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2022-02-02T17:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T08:44:49","slug":"ontario-family-support-charity-learns-of-ransomware-incident-after-threat-actors-send-emails-targeting-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/ontario-family-support-charity-learns-of-ransomware-incident-after-threat-actors-send-emails-targeting-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario family support charity learns of ransomware incident after threat actors send emails targeting clients"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5935\" class=\"elementor elementor-5935\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d889fdd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d889fdd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ff3da3b\" data-id=\"ff3da3b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10d6a06 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10d6a06\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On Thursday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of December\u00a02021, Social Enterprise for Canada (SEC), a Southern Ontario charity that offers family services announced they had learned they has been a target of a ransomware attack on Tuesday, 23<sup>rd<\/sup> of November 2021 which resulted in some of the servers supporting their email and IT systems being affected. They were alerted to the incident when it was discovered that the threat actors has emailed some of their clients notifying them of the attack and threatening to release personal information of the clients unless they clicked on a link in the email. Social Enterprise for Canada has released a press release advising anyone who may have received an email from them in the last 48 hours not to open, click links or respond to the email.<\/p><p>Social Enterprise for Canada took immediate action when alerted to the incident which involved them suspending all affected systems, notifying York Regional Police and working with Check Point in activating a contingency plan to resolve the situation as quickly as possible. Social Enterprise for Canada are working on restoring their systems as soon as possible. Patricia Cousins made it clear that Social Enterprise for Canada is not currently aware of any evidence that any client data has been compromised or misused because of the incident.<\/p><p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t found any data was copied, which we\u2019re quite relieved about. We\u2019ve asked Check Point to do the best search they can, but on the first scan it looks very positive that we didn\u2019t have a data loss. We did, however, have our email compromised.\u201d \u2013 SEC chief executive Patricia Cousins.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 2nd of December&nbsp;2021, Social Enterprise for Canada (SEC), a Southern Ontario charity that offers family services announced they had learned they has been a target of a ransomware attack on Tuesday, 23rd of November 2021 which resulted in some of the servers supporting their email and IT systems being affected. 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