The emergency alert system used by Ada County and other communities across the country suffered a recent cyberattack, putting people’s information at risk.
The Ada County Sheriff’s Office uses the CodeRed system to notify people of emergencies in their area, including wildfires, severe weather and police activity.
“Crisis24, the operator of CodeRED, confirmed that information connected to Ada County CodeRED accounts was taken from one of their older systems via cyberattack,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post on Wednesday night…