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How county services have been interrupted, adapted after ransomware attack

Katie Greenway, planner I at the Hall County Planning Department, works at her desk on Oct. 16, 2020. Hall County departments had to adjust their processes as they recovered from a ransomware attack that took place on Oct. 7. - photo by Thomas Hartwell

101720 DEPARTMENTS 1.jpg — Katie Greenway, planner I at the Hall County Planning Department, works at her desk on Oct. 16, 2020. Hall County departments had to adjust their processes as they recovered from a ransomware attack that took place on Oct. 7. - photo by Thomas Hartwell

With some phone, email and software outages over the past week after a ransomware attack, Hall County government has been doing some things the old-fashioned way.