Fresh virus misery for Illinois: Public health agency taken down by... web ransomware. Great timing, scumbags

Fresh virus misery for Illinois: Public health agency taken down by... web ransomware. Great timing, scumbags

Not like anyone is looking for medical advice right now


As the world tackles the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, ransomware creeps have knocked offline a public health agency's website that served nearly a quarter of a million people in the US.


The Champaign Urbana Public Health District (CHUPD) in Illinois, covering 210,00 folks, including the state's biggest university, said today it has had to set up an alternate website as it deals with a ransomware infection that took down its primary site. "We are working to get our website up and running," the district said in a post to a Facebook page that has now become its preferred outlet.


A spokesperson for the district also confirmed an earlier report from Mother Jones that the outage, which began Tuesday morning, was caused by ..

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