Fire Rescue Victoria still mostly offline after December 2022 cyber incident

Yesterday, I wrote about a hospital that got fucked over by ransomware so bad that it had to close. Today there's a story about Fire Rescue Victoria still suffering the impacts of a "cyber incident" from December 2022. Very little was said about the incident at the time, but it was so bad, FRV had to take down all its computer systems, including its computer aided dispatch system, leaving front-line staff using "radios, mobile phones and pagers". Over 6 months later, none of FRV's systems are back online and the "timeframe for retrieval of data stored in those systems, and access to systems and applications is still unknown". Big oof.


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