(RepublicanDaily.org) – The Los Angeles County Superior Court was targeted in a massive ransomware attack, causing many court proceedings to grind to a halt.
Services resumed after several days, with the outage caused by the attack affecting the entirety of the 36 courthouses in the county.
Officials also said that upon an initial assessment of the impact of the attack, users’ information in the network was not compromised. The closure of the network and pause of service were for system recovery as well as the installation of further security measures to ensure that a similar incident does not happen in the future.
“Court users should expect delays and potential impacts due to limits in functionality,” the court’s website said during the service outage.
Considered to be the largest unified superior court in the United States, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County serves the LA County’s roughly 10 million residents over 36 courthouses. In 2022, the court system is showed to have handled 1.2 million cases and 2,200 jury trials.
Officials also said that the attack was not related to the CrowdStrike bug in the Windows update that impacted multiple major businesses and industries recently. The glitch caused massive losses to several companies, with Microsoft saying that around 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by the crash. The defective bug, which was included in a Windows update for commercial users, caused many devices to display the dreaded “blue screen of death” that bricked computers for several hours as businesses scrambled to find solutions to the problem. Airlines were among the hardest hit, with passengers experiencing massive delays and cancellations due to the crashed computer systems. The outage was so massive that the full extent of the damage has yet to be determined. Lawmakers have also launched a congressional inquiry into the incident, and have subpoenaed CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify.
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