Georgia County’s Experience Shows Perils Of Ransomware

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October 21st, 2019

Janis Mangum, seen here in a control room at the county jail in Jefferson, Georgia, is the sheriff in Jackson County. A ransomware attack in March took down the office’s computer system, forcing deputies to hand write incident reports and arrest bookings.

Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press

On the first Saturday in March, computer screens at the 911 dispatch center in this small town went dark.

Staff at the county jail around the same time could no longer open cell doors remotely with electronic controls, and sheriff’s deputies lost the use of their laptops to look up license plates.

Jackson County was under a ransomware attack.

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