Alabama is grappling with network outages, following cyber incidents that have targeted both state and city governments, and days later, it appears they are still struggling to recover.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey confirmed that a cyberattack on state systems began on March 12, but added that neither networks nor system data were compromised. according to reports.
Likewise, on March 6, the city of Birmingham reported a the network problem had an impact on city systemsthat included blocking law enforcement’s ability to verify stolen vehicles or whether a driver has an arrest warrant, AL.com reported.
Birmingham officials did not respond to Dark Reading’s request for further information on the cyber incident.
Additionally, the Alabama state government was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by Anonymous Sudanan established hacktivist group supported by the Russian government, according to CNN.
“We understand that the outages were initially widespread across all state services, and those effects diminished throughout the day as we worked with our vendors to counter the denial-of-service attack,” Jeremy Ward, spokesperson for the Alabama Office of Information on Technology, he told CNN.
Previously, Anonymous Sudan launched DDoS attacks against Israel, Europe and the messaging app Telegram.