Medical marijuana clinic hacked.

[notdarkyet]

My medical marijuana clinic in cottonwood was hacked six days ago. They said all the clinics in az and Colorado got hacked. Someone is trying to stop mm sales, but they are writing every receipt by hand. I told them it was the Russians or some four hundred pound person hacking from bed. Still it's all very strange.

[sweetroxie]

1. Same in Massachusetts

I don't know if it was hacked, but the computer system is down in at least one of the major MMJ dispensaries in Brookline (and Northampton) and they are doing all transactions by hand. "MJ Freeway, our compliance/sales computer system, has crashed." They don't call it a hacking, but who knows?

[notdarkyet]

3. Three states? Statewide?

[Warpy]

2. Oh, it sounds more like a DEA thing, you know, for your own protection

or even a bunch of Romanian (or any other hacker country) trolls who want to extort money out of people by threatening to inform their bosses at work, something they'd know about by cross checking Farcebook.

Kudos to your clinic for keeping things on good old fashioned paper.

I hope the clinics turn the info over to the FBI. Nothing will be done, of course, but there needs to be a paper trail in case the country ever comes to its senses.

[mountain grammy]

4. Happened to my dispensary in Denver..

I joked about it being the Russians. ha, no joke.. They've been down a week now.

[notdarkyet]

5. Mine too. Very weird.

[edhopper]

6. They are getting data to come after you when they

federally outlaw all legal marijuana.

It will be a top priority of AG Sessions.

if you are not paranoid, you are not paying attention.

[mountain grammy]

7. That has crossed my mind.

the only protection we have seems to be the cash generated by legal pot sales, but the crooks are losing money. Which side is dipshit don on?
I'm plenty paranoid.

[edhopper]

8. It's good for the States

I expect Sessions to push for a Federal, universal anti-pot law. The States won't have a say in it.

[mountain grammy]

9. I expect that too.

Depressing.

[notdarkyet]

10. That's what I thought too.

[herding cats]

11. Yep, it looks like it was a hack if this article is correct.

January 8, 2017 Alleged ‘attack’ takes down MJ Freeway’s software, causing chaos for marijuana retailers

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Denver-based MJ Freeway told Marijuana Business Daily that it believes the outage was caused by a cyberattack of unknown origin.

“Our initial analysis indicates that this was a direct attack on MJ Freeway’s infrastructure,” Ward said.

The attack hit the company’s main databases as well as its backups, but Ward said no client data was stolen.

MJ Freeway has more than 1,000 retail cannabis clients and a presence in most states with active marijuana industries.

https://mjbizdaily.com/alleged-attack-takes-down-mj-freeways-software-causing-chaos-for-marijuana-retailers/

[notdarkyet]

12. Thanks for the info and link.