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January 24, 2020

Cyberattacks hit Oregon city, county governments

By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press

SALEM, Ore. — An Oregon county was struggling Thursday to get its computer and telephone systems running again after it was hit by a cyberattack a week after a nearby city lost data and computer programs in another apparent attack.

“All computer systems are offline at this time, our website is down and the phones are working intermittently,” Tillamook County officials announced in a statement. At a meeting Wednesday, the day the attack was noticed, county officials referred to it as a ransomware attack, according to Laura Swanson, a local reporter who was present.


 
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