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now mayor Touchberry says the Cyber
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attack on the town involving ransomware
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was discovered sometime Thursday morning
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uh Town officials say the monitoring
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systems contain the issue within 30
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minutes which helped significantly
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reduce the potential damage according to
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the town all Municipal departments are
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fully operational including police and
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fire however the mayor says they are
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working around some inconveniences as a
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result of the attack for example
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Somerville police tell us they're having
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to handr write reports today and can't
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access records according to the B the
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South Carolina law enforcement Division
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and federal agencies are assisting in
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investigation citizens should know that
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we're doing everything as a normal
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business for all of the services that
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we're providing to them however there's
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an ongoing investigation and we'll
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provide additional updates as soon as we
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know more uh transparency is extremely
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important for our town and public trust
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is important to us we will uh certainly
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get information out as we learn more
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I ask the mayor if they will take any
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different measures in the future in
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response to the tack here's what he had
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to say that's a very good question it's
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something I've been uh thinking about
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today and I'm sure our staff has been
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talking about after we come out of this
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investigation having the benefit of uh
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National cyber security and state cyber
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security working with us we'll certainly
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seek their guidance on ways we could do
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better in the future or any updating
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that we need to have done
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Town officials say at this time there is
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no evidence to show that any data or um
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sensitive documents were compromised
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reporting live in Somerville I'm Jordan
