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An in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched fol­low­ing a cy­ber at­tack on Ja­maica’s Of­fice of the Reg­is­trar Gen­er­al (ORG), for­mer­ly known as the Reg­is­trar Gen­er­al’s De­part­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to in­ves­ti­ga­tors, the cy­ber at­tack was an at­tempt to dis­rupt sys­tems and gain ac­cess to per­son­al da­ta.

Con­sul­tant and cy­ber se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Richard Weir, in an in­ter­view with Ra­dio Ja­maica News, said the at­tack has prompt­ed “a full-scale in­ves­ti­ga­tion”, and is be­ing at­trib­uted to “a cy­ber crim­i­nal group that has been tar­get­ing sev­er­al Ja­maican com­pa­nies.”