With government systems targeted in the state, Deloitte, law enforcement, and IT experts are racing to contain the breach.

RIBridges benefits system hit by a cyberattack that likely compromised the PII of thousands of Rhode Island citizens.

An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people from the ...

A week after the state announced a massive security breach at Rhode Island’s online portal for health and public benefit ...

A cyberattack on Rhode Island's benefits system may have compromised the personal data of hundreds of thousands of residents.

State officials said hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents could be affected by a cyberattack on the state’s online ...

Those programs will revert to paper applications on Monday because the online portal usually used for them — called ...

Rhode Island took its RIBridges system for applying for public assistance programs like Medicaid offline Friday following a ...

Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee announced late on Friday that the state’s data system has been hit with a major cyberattack.

The breach has potentially left exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of people, from Social Security numbers to ...

But Roger Williams University cybersecurity Prof. Doug White said paying ransom to retrieve data might not work. “Even if you ...

Whether such an attack would still count as ransomware versus simply extortion likely doesn’t matter to the victims. Whatever ...