Kansas Court System Disrupted for Two Weeks Due to Suspected Ransomware Attack
Unprecedented disruption forces attorneys to file motions on paper, no ransomware group has claimed responsibility yet, and the system is expected to remain down for at least another week.
- Kansas court system has been disrupted for nearly two weeks due to a computer outage that experts suspect to be a ransomware attack, although no group has claimed responsibility yet.
- The disruption has forced attorneys to file motions on paper and has considerably slowed down the entire system with growing piles of paperwork.
- Since 2019, ransomware groups have targeted 18 state, city or municipal court systems but the extent of disruption in Kansas is unprecedented.
- Johnson County has been spared from the disruptions as it operates on its own computer systems and hasn't switched over to the state's new online court system.
- With the electronic system down, courts are unable to accept filings, process payments, manage cases or grant public access to records. Electronic application for protection-from-abuse orders and marriage licenses have also been affected.
- Kansas officials have announced that the court system will have to rely upon paper-based operations for at least another week.
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