Late last month, the Saline County Courthouse was experiencing a temporary outage in some of its offices due to a ransomware attack on its Computer and Security Systems provider, Midwest Computech.
According to a release from Saline County Presiding Commissioner Kile Guthrey Jr., the Saline County Courthouse has contracted with Midwest Computech to support and maintain its security and storage systems and it was Midwest Computech that was part of the ransomware target not the Saline County Courthouse.
A letter from Midwest Computech identified the attack as a “Brute Force” attack that was detected on August 27.
During the meeting of the commission on Thursday, September 5, Northern District Commissioner Stephanie Gooden said everything is nearly back to normal.

In other news from the meeting, the commissioners approved a conflict of interest ordinance and an ordinance to adopt the short form for elections. It also approved the hiring of Stacey Turner, who started on September 3, for the kitchen staff at the Saline County Jail.
It also was reported that Presiding Judge Dennis Rolf had approved the hiring of Richard Kindle and Michael Ashpaugh to the road division for the sheriff’s department.