Ransomware attack on Ohio county impacts over 45,000 residents, employees

Ransomware hackers stole Social Safety numbers, monetary data and extra throughout a latest cyberattack on Union County in Ohio.

The county authorities started sending out breach notifications to 45,487 native residents and county workers this week. The letters say ransomware was detected on the county’s community on Could 18, prompting officers to rent cybersecurity specialists and notify federal legislation enforcement companies. 

The hackers stole paperwork that had names, Social Safety numbers, driver’s license numbers, monetary account data, fingerprint knowledge, medical data, passport numbers and extra. 

No ransomware gang has taken credit score for the assault publicly, and the letters stated the county has been monitoring web sources however haven’t discovered any indication the stolen data was launched or provided on the market. 

The county has about 71,000 residents and is 45 minutes exterior of Columbus — which handled its personal ransomware assault one yr in the past. 

Union County is the most recent native authorities to inform the general public of a cyberattack as 2025 has seen dozens of assaults on state, county and metropolis governments, stymying important companies and leaking delicate resident knowledge. 

Lorain County, which has greater than 315,000 residents and is positioned half-hour west of Cleveland, stated in June {that a} community safety incident knocked dozens of presidency methods offline. 

Maryland’s state authorities continues to be recovering from a cyberattack final month that disrupted some real-time data methods and companies for the disabled. 

Final week, the city of Waxhaw, North Carolina confirmed it was attacked by cybercriminals on September 12. The infamous Qilin ransomware gang took credit score for the incident yesterday, claiming to have stolen greater than 600GB of information that features police studies, city enterprise paperwork and extra.

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