The Alabama state government is currently investigating a cybersecurity event that has affected some of its systems, identified on May 9. Although the incident has compromised certain state employees' usernames and passwords, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) clarified that no major disruptions to state services occurred and citizens' personal information remains secure. Collaboration with outside cybersecurity consultants is ongoing to restore affected systems. Concerns were raised about the potential preventability of the breach, especially following recent funding cuts to critical cybersecurity sharing services like MS-ISAC.
According to the statement, the incident was detected on Friday, May 9, and investigations determined crackers compromised some state employees' username and password pairings.
OIT is not in a position to release additional details at this time, but assures that numerous highly skilled technical resources are engaged in responding to this event.
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