Sheriff Shannon Dicus said this week that public safety wasn’t compromised by the ransomware attack but it hindered some tasks.
Deputies, for example, could not access a system that provides information on whether a person is wanted for crimes elsewhere in the country, so they had to request that other agencies make the record checks, Dicus said.
Ransomware involves hackers essentially holding a computer system hostage by encrypting its files and demanding payment in exchange for the software key.that I have read and agree
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