The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has stopped using its CodeRED system to alert residents of orders to evacuate or shelter in place or of other emergencies after learning of a cyberattack on the network and a data breach.

Sheriff’s Deputy Daniel Carlin said Monday that the county stopped using CodeRED Nov. 21 when it learned of the data breach. Two weeks before that, the sheriff’s office started getting notifications that the system was down, but couldn’t get confirmation.

Carlin said CodeRED, accessed through an app, lost a lot of customers’ information. “We don’t trust continuing to use them.”

Although the data haven’t been published online, the sheriff’s office is encouraging all CodeRED users to contact credit bureaus to ensure their personal information has not been compromised.

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