Cyber attacks target State of Oregon

From: KGW.com

Kyle Iboshi, KGW Staff

PORTLAND, Ore. — It is not just big banks and corporate America that have been hit by cyber attacks. Oregon businesses, both large and small, have been targets. So has the Oregon government.

“Once these attacks happen, it is devastating,” said Kate Brown, Oregon Secretary of State. “It takes a lot of time and energy to fully investigate the attack and then for us we had to essentially rebuild our systems.”

Foreign-based cyber intruders infiltrated the Secretary of State’s website early this year. Emails show the mounting concern in the Salem office after detecting the break-in on February 4.

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