{"id":20337,"date":"2019-11-19T19:55:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T03:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20337"},"modified":"2019-11-19T19:55:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T03:55:54","slug":"louisiana-hit-by-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20337","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana hit by ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) on Monday activated the state&#8217;s cybersecurity team in response to an attack on multiple state agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards tweeted that upon discovering the attempted ransomware attack, Louisiana&#8217;s Office of Technology Services (OTS) took state agency servers offline, which impacted emails, websites, and other online applications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The service interruption was due to OTS&#8217; aggressive response to prevent additional infection of state servers and not due to the attempted ransomware attack,&#8221; Edwards wrote. &#8220;Online services started to come back online this afternoon, though full restoration may take several days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services was among the agencies impacted by the attack,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qwmhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprpfmpvd_njqqddfyfnqdrtywdjjr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qwmhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprpfmpvd_njqqddfyfnqdrtywdjjr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1574305986237000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFM0D_FTekQDCuQr3HWTxERw_rn2A\">tweeting that<\/a>\u00a0their Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline was down for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards noted that the Louisiana State Police and &#8220;several federal agencies&#8221; were investigating the attempted attack.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second major ransomware attack Louisiana has been through this year, following one in July that impacted three school districts. Edwards declared a state-wide emergency in response to these attacks, which allowed for state resources and cybersecurity assistance to be given to the districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20338,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337\/revisions\/20338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}