Hackers Target Durham Networks

By Paul Garber

Published March 10, 2020 at 8:25 AM EDT

In this Sept. 12, 2019 photo, County Sheriff Janis Mangum stands in a control room at the county jail, in Jefferson, Ga. A ransomware attack in March took down the office's computer system, forcing deputies to handwrite incident reports and arrest bookings. (AP Photo/Sudhin Thanawala)

Authorities are trying to determine who disrupted phone and computer services in the Triangle over the weekend.

The State Bureau of Investigation is looking for the source of a cyber attack in Durham and Durham County.

Local officials said in a joint statement that phone calls to the city's services were temporarily shut down after the attack was detected.

Those systems are still being recovered but were expected to resume again. Critical public safety services remained in operation.

Authorities didn't say whether the hackers demanded a ransom.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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