Jackson County in state of emergency after ransomware attack

Jackson County, Missouri declared a state of emergency after a ransomware attack disrupted multiple county services—closing Assessment, Collection, and Recorder of Deeds offices and affecting tax payments, marriage license, and inmate search systems—while officials engaged the FBI, DHS, and outside IT security experts to investigate; the county and payment provider Payit stated that resident financial data hosted outside county systems was not compromised.