Anchorage Police Department via Whitebox Technologies
January 7, 2026
•[ security incident, third-party risk, data migration ]
Anchorage Police Department reported it took immediate containment actions after being alerted on January 7, 2026 to a security incident affecting one of its technology service providers, Whitebox Technologies (a data migration firm). According to reporting cited in the post, the Citys IT department shut down the relevant Anchorage Police Department servers and disabled the vendors access along with all third-party service provider access while incident response work continued. As of the report date, no ransomware group had publicly claimed responsibility and there was no public statement from the vendor. Public reporting did not confirm whether any APD data was accessed or exfiltrated, but it confirms operational disruption via server shutdown and access suspension.
