Beacon Mutual ransomware attack exposed data of 4,500 current and former RI state employees

By: Alexander Castro

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: May 22, 2026

Words: 1,077

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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The personal information of an estimated 132,000 Rhode Islanders was involved in a January cyberattack on Beacon Mutual Insurance, the Warwick-based workers’ comp company revealed this week.

Beacon is the third party vendor that administers the state’s workers compensation insurance policy. Karen Greco, spokesperson for the Rhode Island Department of Administration, told Rhode Island Current in an email Friday that the affected individuals included a few thousand state employees, both past and present. …

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