Pierce County emergency alert system hit by OnSolve data breach
SpilloverSpillover from the OnSolve incident · View original incident →In the wake of the OnSolve incident, Pierce County's emergency alert system suffered a data breach. The system was among those caught up in a nationwide data breach across the United States.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Pierce County
- Original incident
- CodeRED ransomware attack disrupts US emergency alerts
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It emerged that Pierce County's emergency alert system was among those caught up in a nationwide data breach across the United States.
Original incident
This is spillover from the OnSolve incident.
CodeRED ransomware attack disrupts US emergency alerts
Impact: Disruption of local emergency alert systems across the US and data breach
OnSolve's CodeRED emergency alert platform was hit by a ransomware attack, disrupting local emergency alert systems across the US and causing a data breach. Systems used in Pierce County and the Lehigh Valley were also affected. The CodeRED platform was shut down after the attack, and the exact scale of the breach has not been confirmed.
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