Rhode Island’s workers’ compensation notifies those affected by January data breach

Beacon Mutual Insurance, the vendor administering Rhode Island’s workers’ compensation, disclosed a January ransomware incident that exposed personally identifiable information and detailed claims data for roughly 131,000–162,000 people (including several thousand current and former state employees). The extortion group INC Ransom claimed on a darkweb leak site to possess ~275 GB of sensitive data and posted screenshots as proof; Beacon confirmed the attack though the listing does not state that files were encrypted.