The Superior Court of Los Angeles County will be closed on Monday as they continue to recover from a ransomware attack that happened last week.
Because of this, all 36 courthouse locations across LA County will be closed to start the week as work continues on the repair and reboot of network systems that were shut down shortly after the ransomware attack was detected.
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Source: MSN News
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