The St. George Fire Protection District is suing General Informatics after a December 2023 breach allegedly left hackers “living off the land” inside its network and exposed critical systems. The lawsuit says compromised credentials, poor segmentation, weak logging, and missing backups made the district vulnerable and forced a complete network rebuild. #StGeorgeFireProtectionDistrict #GeneralInformatics #EastBatonRouge #LouisianaEmergencySupportFunction17
Keypoints
- The St. George Fire Protection District filed suit over a December 2023 breach.
- Hackers allegedly used legitimate tools to stay hidden inside the network.
- Law enforcement found compromised remote access credentials across General Informatics clients.
- The district’s domain controllers, firewall logging, and network segmentation were reportedly deficient.
- The fire district had to rebuild its entire network after the attack.