CodeRED, an emergency alert system used by the city of Bradenton , experienced a cyberattack during which personal information of users was breached.
According to a news release provided by the City of Bradenton, the breached information was associated with personal accounts, and included things such as names, addresses, contact information and account passwords.
Some residents should change their passwords for other platforms to avoid hacking attempts, officials say.
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CodeRED platform used by Bradenton faces cyberattack
OnSolve, the entity that runs CodeRED, has taken the platform offline nationwide, the City of Bradenton wrote in the release. Clients of the alert system have been transitioned into the CodeRED by Crisis24 system, which is active and able to send alerts in the case of an emergency…