Laura Vozzella reports:
A “sophisticated cyberattack” struck the offices of Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares on Wednesday, forcing the agency to shut down computer systems and resort to paper court filings as Virginia State Police and the FBI investigate.
“Unfortunately our agency has been the victim of what appears to be a sophisticated cyberattack,” Chief Deputy Attorney General Steven G. Popps wrote in an email to the agency’s 700 employees late Wednesday afternoon.
With nearly all of the agency’s computer systems offline, Popps wrote, he had to use his office smartphone to send the email to employees, who relied on their phones to read it.
Read more at The Washington Post.
As of publication, no group appears to have claimed responsibility for the attack, and it is not clear whether there has been any ransom demand.