On Friday morning, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County reported that their internal systems had fallen prey to a ransomware attack. In defense, the Court has disabled its network systems and will continue to be inactive over the weekend while the problem is being resolved.
On Friday night, the Superior Court system released a statement stating that the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and various other agencies are currently investigating the breach and taking steps to mitigate any potential damage.
As per the Court, the prompt detection of the cyber attack was possible due to the continuous upgrades made to the cybersecurity infrastructure over the years.
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It is currently thought that the attack is not connected to the Crowdstrike outage that occurred on Thursday, which impacted various industries, including airlines and hospitals.
On Thursday night, Microsoft acknowledged that users were unable to access a number of Microsoft 365 apps and services. The company stated that the cause of the outage was related to a software update from a cybersecurity firm that was installed on Microsoft Windows computers.
The Court has reported that, based on the preliminary investigation, there is no indication of any compromise to the data of court users.
