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Wexford County: cyberattack corrupted Register of Deeds backups; property closings delayed
Summary
County staff told commissioners a Nov. 5 cyberattack corrupted backups for the Register of Deeds, leaving reliable records only through 2016 and creating delays for title work and closings while vendors recreate a usable database.
Wexford County officials told the Board of Commissioners that a Nov. 5 cyberattack corrupted the Register of Deeds backups and left the county without usable electronic records after 2016, forcing the county to rely on recovered images and a prospective database rebuild.
The county’s report to the board said the register’s main system and its backups were compromised, investigators worked with the FBI and state police, and a data-recovery team was only able to recover electronic backups through 2016 and image files dating back to the 1980s. “We started calling software providers then to say, hey. How can you help us? We don't know how in-depth this is,” a county staff member identified in the meeting as Jeff said while describing the investigation and vendor…
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