A cyberattack on Georgia’s largest county disrupted its regular operations over the weekend, but it surely didn’t have an effect on the high-profile racketeering case towards former president Donald Trump, in line with the district legal professional’s workplace.
The chair of the Fulton County Fee, Robb Pitts, introduced on Monday in a social media video that the county, which encompasses most of Atlanta, was affected by a “widespread system outage” attributable to a “cybersecurity incident”. He stated the outage was impacting the county’s telephone, court docket and tax programs.
Nevertheless, the Fulton County district legal professional, Fani Willis, assured that the racketeering case towards Trump and others was not compromised by the cyberattack.
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‘All materials associated to the election case’ is safe
“All materials associated to the election case is stored in a separate, extremely safe system that was not hacked and is designed to make any unauthorized entry extraordinarily troublesome if not unimaginable,” Willis’s workplace stated in an announcement.
The assertion additionally stated that the prosecutor’s workplace was going through “drastic” challenges because of the digital court docket submitting system outage. The web site that hosts Fulton County’s on-line court docket data was exhibiting a message that it’s “briefly unavailable”.
The assertion added that the Atlanta police division was avoiding electronic mail communication with the district legal professional’s workplace for concern of infecting its personal programs. This was affecting the prosecutors’ work as a result of about 85% of their circumstances originate from the Atlanta police.
Tump haven’t pleaded responsible but
In August, a Fulton County grand jury indicted Trump and 18 others for allegedly partaking in a broad conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election leads to Georgia unlawfully. 4 of them have already admitted their guilt and reached plea agreements with the prosecutors. Trump and the remainder have pleaded not responsible.
Pitts stated the outage was being investigated by regulation enforcement authorities.
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The FBI workplace in Atlanta stated it was conscious of the breach and had been in contact with the county’s data expertise division, however didn’t present any particulars.
Jessica Corbitt, a spokesperson for Fulton County, stated on Tuesday that there was no timeline for when the outage can be mounted. She stated most county workplaces had been nonetheless open, however some transactions had been restricted due to the outage, as per the county’s web site.
