Several services provided by the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority (GSCCCA) were temporarily unavailable in our area this week.
The Whitfield County Clerk of Superior Court, Babs Bailey, tells us a statewide cybersecurity incident affected the following GSCCCA-related services at her office Wednesday:
Real estate eFiling
Real estate indexing & searches
PT-61 / online real estate search
UCC filings
Notary applications
OBTS transmitting
Any services that require GSCCCA website access
The Clerks' Authority says they have since neutralized the threat, and all systems have returned to normal operation.
Their information technology team detected behavior consistent with an active hacking attempt on Friday, November 21. The FBI even reached out to them about the threa

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