Lincoln County servers have been infiltrated by ransomware for the second time in less than two weeks. This time, it was servers within Lincoln County Communications that were hacked. Issues were discovered by Lincoln County Information Technology staff around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6, according to a press release issued by Bill Gibbs, director of the Lincoln County Communications Center.
To date, no requests for ransom or other contact has been made by the hacker. Local, regional and federal resources including the National Guard, the FBI and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office have been contacted for support. No personal data was compromised that the county knows of, and it is unknown at this time how long it will take to get the servers back in operation, according to county manager Kelly Atkins.
“The servers could be back up as quick as a week or as long as a month,” Atkins said. “We’ve got a lot of people working on a lot of different things.”
