Officials at Suffolk County, New York, have disclosed that significant cybersecurity lapses have brought upon the major ransomware attack last September, which compromised nearly 500,000 residents’ personal data, reports WNYW-TV. Threat actors leveraged a vulnerability to infiltrate County Clerk servers eight months prior to attacking the county, according to a 40-page forensic report on the incident conducted by a third-party cybersecurity firm.

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