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Washington County Government Hit by Cyber Attack, Officials Say

Washington County’s computer systems have been the target of what officials say is a continuing cyber attack that began Friday.

More than 14,000 separate attempts to log into the county’s servers were detected Friday, said Tad Sours, the county’s communications director. There were more than 17,000 attempts to access county servers Saturday and the number grew to more than 33,000 Sunday, Sours said.

“They were trying to get into our servers, hitting them over and over and over,” he said Monday morning. “It is still ongoing.”

Read the rest of the story at Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, here.

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