Ransomware attack hit Pennsylvania Democratic Senators

The Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus was hit with a ransomware attack, locking 16 Democratic senators and their staff out of their computer network.

The attack was discovered on Friday morning; at the time of publishing on Sunday, the site was still down and displayed an “error establishing a database connection” message. The same error displays when trying to view each Democratic senator’s website.

“Officials from the caucus have been in contact with law enforcement to investigate the incident and are working with Microsoft to restore the IT system,” according to a written statement text-messaged to reporters and obtained by The Hill. It was sent via text since the caucus could not use its email. “There is currently no indication that the caucus system was targeted or that any data has been compromised.”

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