The Office of Colorado State Public defenders was forced to shut down its computer network on Monday, after officials became aware of malware-encrypted data within its system.
The “cybersecurity incident,” first reported by the Denver Post, is the latest in a string of cyberattacks that have impacted local courts systems nationwide. Last week, Pennsylvania‘s state court website suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack, which disrupted several of its computer systems, including online docket sheets and an electronic case document filing portal. The website for Kansas district court cases only recently came back online after an October 12 cyberattack that caused a months-long outage.
