Maryland Dept. Of Health Website Operational After Cyberattack

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Department of Health said its website is operational aft a cyberattack crippled immoderate services.

The section announced the cyberattack Sunday and the website was rerouted to the state’s flagship webpage.

The cyberattack besides took distant the resources the website usually has available, including the pages inviting Marylanders to use for Medicaid, get information connected section nursing location information and bid escaped at-home investigating for sexually transmitted infections.

The section said determination is no grounds information has been compromised, and they person yet to corroborate whether immoderate hacker has hijacked their computers demanding money, which is what happened to Baltimore City 2 years ago. Criminals demanded $100,000 successful bitcoin.

As of 8:00 pm, our website, https://t.co/JBfkLZnCjd, is again operational. Thank you for your patience portion we worked to reconstruct it.

— Maryland Department of Health (@MDHealthDept) December 7, 2021

CBS Baltimore Staff

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