Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) as suffered a cyberattack by a new ransomware operation. The attack forced them to shut down their network, website, email, and phone systems and thus they had to suspend all online activities and certain in-person municipality activities. Even the Whistler.ca website was hacked to display a message stating that the site was under construction and that visitors should contact support at an included Tor dark web URL. The URL also lead to a dark web chat site used by the attackers to negotiate a ransom payment with Whistler and to prevent the leaking of stolen files. The group reportedly stole the personal information (names, addresses) sql databases, stats, huge email dumps, emails database, passwords, network scheme, services, private documents of about 800 gb that were to be placed on darknet auction and sold in next 7 days.

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) informed members of the public that its municipal website, Whistler.ca, was subject to a recent security breach. It was found that the purpose of the attack was to re-direct people to different and, most likely, illicit websites. Immediate action was taken to identify, contain and resolve the issue. staff became aware that personal information collected through forms on the website may also have been vulnerable. The action was quickly taken to remove the web forms and any associated personal information from the site.