Ted Ross, general manager of the city’s Information Technology Agency, told the Times that billions of attempted cyberattacks had been made on the city of Los Angeles’s computer systems in the last five years. Ross said that a person who described themselves as a hacker got in touch with the city on July 25 and had inside knowledge of the LAPD applicant database going back as far as 2010.
Potentially compromised data reportedly included email addresses, birth dates, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.