PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. – Pulaski County and Circuit Clerk Terri Hollingsworth acknowledged on Tuesday that a cybersecurity incident led to a system outage at the office.
The Pulaski County system went offline on Jan. 16 and remained offline into February. During the outage, the office could not process licenses, voter registrations and real estate documents.
Computers systems still down at Pulaski County Circuit and County Clerk’s office
A statement from the office said it took “a significant amount of time” to restore operations, coupled with the help of an IT team from Heartland Business Systems. The statement continued that the office has implemented “extensive security measures” due to the incident, including implementing a “robust anti-phishing system.”
Hollingsworth said no personal data was taken during the incident…