Enlarge / Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, which is part of Jackson County. Eric Rogers Jackson County, Missouri, has declared a state of emergency and closed key offices indefinitely as it responds to what officials believe is a ransomware attack that has made some of its IT systems inoperable. “Jackson County has identified significant disruptions within […]
Kansas State University is managing a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted various network systems, including VPN, email services, and video platforms, impacting the educational continuity for its 20,000 students and 1,400 academic personnel.
The Kansas state court system is close to a full recovery from an October ransomware attack that forced officials to use paper records for weeks, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert said Wednesday. During a State of the Judiciary speech in front of the Kansas legislature, Luckert spoke at length about the incident, telling […]
A hospital near Kansas City, Missouri, is struggling to provide care to patients this week after a cyberattack limited its systems. In an update on Wednesday, Liberty Hospital said it was still dealing with disruptions to its computer systems that began on Tuesday. The facility initially had to transfer some patients to other hospitals, but […]
Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they had not provided an explanation as of Wednesday, experts say it has all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack. The disruption has left attorneys unable to search online records and […]
A cyberattack on a small city in Kansas has disrupted the government’s email, phone and online payment systems. Pittsburg — home to about 20,000 people along the state’s border with Missouri and Oklahoma — said it discovered the incident over the weekend. The attack caused an IT outage that limited government systems but did not […]