A statewide outage that affected Washington state courts’ network for two weeks ended Monday.
“The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) is in the process of bringing up systems on the Washington Courts network, following successful work and testing throughout the weekend,” the office said in a news release.
The outage began after the AOC detected unauthorized activity on the Washington Courts network. Action was taken to secure critical systems. The outage included all Judicial Information Systems, the Washington Courts websites and associated services, The News Tribune previously reported.
Monday’s release said that the unauthorized activity has been eliminated, with a forensic analysis ongoing.
“We can confirm that there was no detected breach of data and the event did not result in ransomware, due to quick action taken to isolate and secure the network. A post-event release will follow the next meeting of the state’s Judicial Information System Committee in December as we learn more,” the release said.