According to sources, Onondaga County records system (a Government organization in New York) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2022-12-28.
Source 1 | 2022-12-28
“On Dec. 27, Onondaga County Clerk Lisa Dell said her office was contacted by Cott Systems Inc., the third-party vendor the county contracts with for online record management. Cott Systems said they had detected potentially malicious files within their infrastructure around Christmas Day. “
“That means the county’s online record management system within the clerk’s office is offline until the issue is resolved by Cott, Dell said. “
“The issue also affects the county’s court records system, but court documents can still be accessed through the state website at www.nycourts.gov. “
Source 2 | 2023-01-10
“The Onondaga County Clerk’s office is back offline again as its computer management system vendor struggles to restore services for the county and hundreds of other governments across the nation after a cyber attack.“
“Onondaga County Clerk Lisa Dell said the county can’t record house closings, deeds or mortgages because they can’t search last minute judgements or a lien on a property. New businesses can’t be taken in because the office can’t search the system to see if there are other businesses with a similar name. “
““That’s greatly impacting those customers and obviously impacting us because we can’t record that for them and we can’t really do that manually,” Dell said. “Customers can come in and search our physical copies of judgments, liens, deeds, so forth mortgages, the ones that we do have in file or on film, but if it’s anything recent, they can’t come and search that because of our system being down.” “
“The issue also affects the county’s court records system, but court documents can still be accessed through the state website. “
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