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Rural Alabama Electric Cooperative Hit by Ransomware Attack

July 7, 2021

Wiregrass Electric Cooperative, which serves about 25,000 members, did not pay a ransom and didn’t have any data compromised in the attack, chief operating officer Brad Kimbro said. Electrical service wasn’t interrupted.

But member account information and payment systems were taken offline for maintenance and as a precaution, he said, and information technicians were starting work to reestablish customer sites.

“Our IT guys spent all weekend out of an abundance of caution looking at every server, every laptop, every computer, everything,” Kimbro said.

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