Henry government facing service outages after possible cyber “incident”

guest · Jul 22, 2019

Henry government facing service outages after possible cyber “incident”
July 17, 2019
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/henr...osing-internet-access/Ve2Pfdt9LRbDvSCvh2iO4H/

Henry County Government lost its access to the Internet and most online services early on Wednesday in what officials said could be a cyber attack.
Public safety like the Sheriff’s Office was not impacted, Henry officials said.

The county’s tech team noticed a possible cyber “incident” around 4 a.m. Wednesday and decided to take down the south metro community’s network to safeguard Henry government information, spokeswoman Melissa Robinson said.
“We have employed all resources to mitigate the issue and are working diligently to rectify the situation,” the county said.
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Henry County networks still offline five days after malware attack
July 22, 2019

Henry County’s computer system remained down early Monday, five days after malware is suspected to have been planted in the south metro community’s network.
Websites for various departments such as state court, tax assessor and board of commissioners continued Monday to be inaccessible.

The district is analyzing each individual server for any signs of malware before bringing them back online, county spokeswoman Melissa Robinson said.
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guest · Dec 20, 2019

Henry County, Ga., Spends $650K Restoring Data After Breach
December 18, 2019
https://www.govtech.com/budget-finance/Henry-County-Ga-Spends-650K-Restoring-Data-After-Breach.html

Henry County, Ga., has spent more than $600,000 restoring its computer network in the five months since a cyber attack crippled the county government’s online operations, according to figures provided by the south metro Atlanta community.

The county has spent about $656,000 as of mid-December to get its system fully operational, with the majority of the money — around $578,000 — going to consultants and computer security companies for server installation, compliance work, travel expenses and other activities, officials said.
Cybersecurity experts said the price tag for fixing the problem will likely increase.

“If the consultants got more than half a million and only $100,000 went to improving their technology then they either spent too much on consultants or they are nowhere near done spending on the technology.”
Brad Johnson, Henry’s assistant county manager, defended using the consultants [...]
Henry officials have declined to be specific on how they have repaired their system and what software they are using to avoid giving potential hackers information that could lead to another attack.
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