CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County officials are urging residents to safeguard their personal information after a nationwide cybersecurity incident may have exposed data tied to the county’s ReadyNotify emergency alert system.

The breach affected CodeRED, an alert platform operated by Crisis24 that the county and local municipalities use to send out alerts about weather, emergencies or government news . The county’s Office of Emergency Management learned Tuesday that subscriber information may have been compromised.

Crisis24 has not disclosed the extent of the breach, but county officials stressed Wednesday that the system is not connected to any county IT networks and does not store any financial data, social security numbers or other sensitive information. It does, however, store t

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