{"id":26810,"date":"2026-03-20T13:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=26810"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:01:52","slug":"letter-is-sent-about-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/letter-is-sent-about-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter is sent about ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Church of the Brethren denomination suffered a ransomware attack in mid-December 2024 that breached the organization\u2019s computer network. Since then, leading staff have been working with attorneys and insurance companies to compile a list of those whose personal information may have been in the data that was affected, while the Finance and IT staff have worked tirelessly to assess the damage, rebuild and fortify online protections, and recover data and files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list of those whose personal information may have been affected is now complete and a formal letter has been sent to those people, to arrive in mailboxes in coming days. The delay in sending this information has come as denominational leadership adhered to the procedures and policies that are advised for this type of event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The majority of the Church of the Brethren membership is not affected and will not receive a letter. Only those whose personal information may have been affected will receive a letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The notification letter includes instructions about how to register for identify theft protection monitoring services. For questions and to register for monitoring services, please call the number given in the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Brethren denomination suffered a ransomware attack in mid-December 2024 that breached the organization\u2019s computer network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[3,1261,129,3689],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-26810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-general-secretary","tag-newsline","tag-ransomware"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26811,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810\/revisions\/26811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26810"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=26810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}