
Alaskan health department still struggling to recover after 'nation-state sponsored' cyberattack
CNN
Some computer networks at the Alaskan health department are still offline after foreign government-backed hackers breached the department in May, a spokesperson told CNN on Monday.
News of the breach first emerged in May, but Alaskan officials now say that "nation-state sponsored" hackers exploited a vulnerability in the health department's website to gain further access to department data. The hackers may have accessed Alaskans' Social Security numbers and health and financial information, officials said.
"There is still no timeline for when all services that are currently offline will be back online," Clinton Bennett, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, told CNN. He pointed to the department's large and complex IT infrastructure in explaining the long recovery time.

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