Columbus, Ohio, confirms 500K people affected by Rhysida ransomware attack

The City of Columbus, Ohio, has confirmed half a million people's data was accessed and potentially stolen when Rhysida's ransomware raided its systems over the summer.

In fact, the city noted in a filing that the number of people potentially affected was 500,000 exactly, an oddly round number for data break-in disclosures of this kind.

It's the first time Columbus has confirmed the scale of the ransomware attack and associated data exposure. Rhysida said it dumped around 3 TB worth of stolen files on its blog after failing to net an extortion payment from the city, but as ever with these things, it's difficult to comb through all these records to determine exactly how many people were caught up in the attack.

That said, we only know the scale because of the filing with Maine's attorney general. The letters sent to the potentially affected ...