iConstituent is the next victim in ransomware

This week, we learn about iConstituent, a service lawmakers use to communicate with voters. In an article titled Ransomware hits iConstituent, a service lawmakers use to communicate with voters it talks about what happened as they got it at the time over at Cyberscoop.

iConstituent boasts that its software “supports millions of digital interactions between people and their governments each year.” It was unclear Tuesday morning how broadly the incident would impact House legislators’ communication with constituents.

The Washington-based firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The news outlet Punchbowl was first to report on the incident.

I’ve recently gotten text messages about voting for some people and I’m not even a registered voter. Don’t remember now where they came from, but I never signed up for such services and I’ve written “stop” to all of these numbers that tell me to vote for some person or another.

I’m not sure if that is the same service or not, but if people add bunches of numbers and send out blasts of text messages using a service like this should be told that they can’t do that. Services like this should be used for legitament use, and the fact they’ve been breached is a sad state of affairs.

This news broke hours before we end up finding out that Colonial Pipeline paid 4 million dollars in ransomware to their attackers and 2.3 million of that was recovered by the department of justice.

There’s lots more to read here, Ransomware hits iConstituent, a service lawmakers use to communicate with voters is the article once again, feel free to read it. Lots of links throughout.