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South Dakota's online and communication systems were restored after a 24-hour outage.

The outage affected various state agencies, including the court system, law enforcement, and driver's license services.

A judicial emergency was declared, suspending court deadlines and filings.

The outage was caused by a power failure at the state's data center, not a cybersecurity breach.

State online and communications systems began to come back online Wednesday after more than 24 hours of failures – and a declaration of judicial emergency by the South Dakota’s court system.

A news release from the state Bureau of Information Technology said the state had restored the primary power supply to the state’s data center, which is the term used by the bureau to describe all the hard

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