California officials say largest trial court in US victim of ransomware attack

LOS ANGELES — A ransomware assault has shut down the pc system of the biggest trial courtroom within the nation, officers with the Superior Court docket of Los Angeles County stated.

The cybersecurity assault started early Friday and isn’t believed to be associated to the defective CrowdStrike software program replace that has disrupted airways, hospitals and governments world wide, officers stated in a press release Friday.

The courtroom disabled its laptop community techniques upon discovery of the assault, and it’ll stay down by means of a minimum of the weekend. A preliminary investigation exhibits no proof that customers’ information was compromised, in accordance with the assertion.

The Superior Court docket of Los Angeles County is the biggest unified superior courtroom in america, serving the county’s 10 million residents over 36 courthouses. Almost 1.2 million circumstances have been filed and a pair of,200 jury trials have been performed in 2022.