Mike Rogoway reports:
Ruby Receptionists, the Portland company that serves as a phone receptionist for thousands of small businesses, has suffered a major outage that knocked it offline all week.
One of Ruby’s online vendors was hit by a cyberattack that left the company unable to accept any incoming calls or online messages, CEO Kate Winkler wrote in a note to clients Monday. She instructed clients to stop forwarding their phone calls to Ruby.
Read more at OregonLive.
The attack on Opus Interactive also the campaign finance firm C&E Systems used by the state elections’ system, but the firm said that it would not compromise the state campaign finance reporting.