Washington County cyber-attack takes down servers, exposes personal data
Washington County was hit by a cyber-attack that took down its main computer servers. It was later confirmed that data stolen in the breach included personally identifiable information.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Washington County
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Theft of data containing personally identifiable information and outage of main computer servers
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It emerged that Washington County's main computer servers had been taken down by a cyber-attack.
- It was confirmed that the stolen data included personally identifiable information.
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