Two agencies grapple with cyberattacks
More than three months after a computer system serving as a backbone of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice was hacked, many contractors providing services to at-risk and troubled youths remain unable to access the network.
Efforts to bring the network back online were still ongoing as the state was hit with a second cyberattack that resulted in outages of the Florida Department of Health’s Vital Statistics System. The statewide system is used to process birth and death certificates, among other records. Reports that cyber-thieves RansomHub had hacked into the vital statistics system began circulating July 1 on social media. The hackers threatened to release health department data on...