Fallout from the Fulton County cyberattack continues, key techniques nonetheless down

Key techniques in Fulton County, Georgia have been offline since final week when a ‘cyber incident’ hit authorities techniques. Whereas the county has tried its greatest to proceed operations as regular, phone lines, court systems, property records and more all went down. The county has not but confirmed particulars of the cyber incident, similar to what group may very well be behind it or motivations for the assault. As of Tuesday, there didn’t look like a knowledge breach, according to Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts.

Fulton County made headlines in August because the place the place prosecutors selected to deliver election interference prices in opposition to former president Donald Trump. However don’t be concerned, officers assured the general public that the case had not been impacted by the assault. “All materials associated to the election case is saved in a separate, extremely safe system that was not hacked and is designed to make any unauthorized entry extraordinarily tough if not unimaginable,” said Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis.

Regardless of this, Fulton County election techniques didn’t look like the goal of the assault. Whereas Fulton County’s Division of Registration and Elections went down, “there isn’t any indication that this occasion is expounded to the election course of,” Fulton County said in a statement. “In an abundance of warning, Fulton County and the (Georgia) Secretary of State’s respective expertise techniques had been remoted from each other as a part of the response efforts.”

To date, the affect of the assault ranges extensively from delays getting marriage certificates to disrupted court docket hearings. On Wednesday, a miscommunication through the outage even let a homicide suspect out of custody. A manhunt continues after officers mistakenly released the suspect whereas being transferred between Clayton County and Fulton County for a listening to.

The county has not launched data on when it expects techniques to be totally restored, however it’s working with legislation enforcement on restoration efforts. Within the meantime, whereas constituents have hassle reaching sure authorities providers, Fulton County put out a list of contact information for impacted departments. Fulton County additionally launched a full list of impacted systems.

Whereas the federal government IT outages occurred, an area pupil additionally hacked into Fulton County Faculties techniques, according to StateScoop on Friday. The college system continues to be figuring out if any private data could have been breached, however most providers got here again on-line by Monday.