According to sources, City of Bardstown, Bardstown Sheriff's Office, First responders; Bardstown Connect (a Public Safety organization in Kentucky) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2022-09-02.
Source 1 | 2022-09-02
“Hacked heading into a holiday weekend. The digital network went down in the Bourbon Capital of the World on Friday. Thousands of people across Bardstown lost internet access, crippling servers at city and county agencies.“
“As a result of the outage, Nelson County Sheriff Ramon Pinerora says they quickly switched to AT&T hotspots. They also started relaying calls through a State Police post. He says the department will continue to answer any calls from the county.“
“"So we would ask the public to understand what's going on here locally, that now we're gonna have to go outside of our dispatch to get information back to us, and relay to the officers, or deputies, or EMS, whatever the case may be," Sheriff Pineiroa said.“
Source 2 | 2022-09-09
“Mayor Dick Heaton ...provided an update on the network disruption that knocked the city’s Bardstown Connect internet service offline starting at about 3 a.m. Friday, Sept. 2. Heaton confirmed the city experienced a ransomware cyberattack.“
“Heaton refused to state the amount of the ransom that was requested. He did confirm that the city had not paid a ransom. Because of the ongoing investigation, he could not provide additional details.“
“He also would not address a question about how the ransomware attack infiltrated the city’s internet system. He also would not specify if the affected computers’ were encrypted or otherwise blocked from being used because of the malicious attack.“
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