Kansas courts to operate on paper for at least 2 weeks due to “unauthorized incursion” into system (1)

Cameron Burnett reports:

Court systems throughout Kansas, including Sedgwick County, will likely be operating on paper for the next two weeks, at the minimum.

Kansas Judge Phil Journey says it looks like there has been an “unauthorized incursion” into the brand-new statewide computer system and it will be down for at least two weeks, affecting all Kansas state courts.

Read more at KAKE. Although KAKE’s headline included, “judge says ransomware attack may be to blame,” there was nothing in their actual news report that showed that the judge said it might be a ransomware attack.

The state’s administrative order, issued on October 12, is embedded below.

h/t, Brett Callow

Update of November 21:  AP reports that the attack did result in the exfiltration of data and authorities are now referring to this as a “sophisticated foreign cyberattack.”  It’s not clear why they are calling it “sophisticated,” and no ransomware group has claimed responsibility publicly for this incident as yet.