RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Hackers have focused the Metropolis of Riviera Seaside’s Fireplace Rescue Division’s Twitter web page. It was found earlier this week and is contained solely to the division’s Twitter web page, in keeping with a spokesperson.
“Proper now, we’re at present locked out of the Twitter account,” Riviera Seaside Fireplace Rescue spokesperson DaWayne Watson advised Contact 5. “I’m attempting to drag up our Twitter web page, it says the account doesn’t exist.”
Watson confirmed Contact 5 what’s left of his division’s web page which has a brand new title, emblem, posts and even earlier posts. The intruder is called Bitcoinsensus and promotes investing in crypto-currency.
He stated the division had been utilizing two-step authentication for its Twitter account as a precaution when the hack occurred.
“Day-after-day they’re placing issues out in reference to bitcoins and the way they’re used and managed and the foreign money alternate which is clearly one thing the Metropolis of Riviera Seaside Fireplace Rescue doesn’t do,” Watson stated.
The most recent hack comes greater than two years after town council approved its insurance coverage service to pay about $600,000 in Bitcoin ransom to get better information following a cyber-attack.
Town additionally reportedly spent near 1,000,000 {dollars} on cyber safety enhancements and updating computer systems.
A metropolis spokesperson advised Contact 5 it didn’t embrace social media accounts that they can not management.
Watson says thus far, the division has not obtained any calls for for ransom and is working with Twitter to attempt to regain management of the necessary web page.
“We use our Twitter web page as one or our fundamental platforms in order that we will guarantee the security and well-being of each citizen within the of Riviera Seaside,” Watson stated.
Fireplace Rescue will make the most of town’s Twitter web page, @Rivierabch to share any necessary data with the group till this difficulty is resolved.
Contact 5 reached out to the corporate now listed on the Twitter web page for remark and we’ve not heard again.
