Maryland officials are asking employees not to use state-issued computers as it continues to deal with a network security incident detected at the state’s Department of Health over the weekend, which caused authorities to take certain systems, as well as the department’s public website, offline.
As of Monday night, the department’s website was operational again, but on Tuesday, some other systems remained offline as the state’s IT experts and law enforcement agencies investigate, a Maryland Department of Health spokesman says.
“The Maryland Department of Information Technology, the Maryland Department of Health, and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management are working closely with federal and state law enforcement partners to address and gather information about the network security incident that was discovered this past weekend,” he says in a statement provided to Information Security Media Group.
