Rhode Island’s online advantages system shuts down after cyberattack

Rhode Island took its RIBridges system for utilizeing for accessible helpance programs enjoy Medichelp offline Friday adhereing a cyberattack that may have exposed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of people, tells CBS affiliate WPRI 12.

With its RIBridges system offline, Rhode Idefamations won’t be able to log into RIBridges’ web portal or app, engaged to utilize for Medichelp, food stamps, and other state advantages, says a administerment site providing modernizes on the bachieve. Governor Dan McKee shelp during a press alerting that attackers may have gotten personal info enjoy names, insertresses, and social security numbers of those who’ve engaged the system between 2019 to now.

State Chief Digital Officer and Chief Inestablishation Officer Brian Tardiff, who also spoke at the alerting, shelp the attack is not extortion software, but “more of an extortion type activity by this cybercriminal group.”

The attack also impacted HealthSource RI, Rhode Island’s healthattfinish tagetplace. The state hopes to get the system back online before the healthattfinish uncover enrollment period finishs on January 31st, as WPRI authors. In the unbenevolenttime, mail-in paper applications and teachions for using them are useable at the state’s Department of Human Services website.

The bachieve modernize site says that tomorrow, the state will publish the number of a call caccess for help with the bachieve, useable from 11AM to 8PM ET Sunday morning and from 9AM to 9PM ET Monday thcimpolite Friday after that. The Rhode Island administerment also schedules to mail teachions for free praise watching to those impacted.