A cyberattack hit the Living Room Theaters in Portland Thursday night, forcing the arthouse cinema to shut down its downtown location. The company said most of its computer systems were rendered unusable and it has no clear timeline for reopening.
Law-enforcement officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Portland field office and cybersecurity experts from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have been called in to assess the damage and determine how the breach happened. The theatrer’s CEO described the incident as “cruel and random.”
Ticket holders were told they may have to wait for refunds, because the staff cannot yet access systems to process them. The shutdown also impacted the company’s other locations, showing how far-reaching the attack was.