HARRISBURG, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - In Harrisburg, a cyber attack damaged an emergency notification system called CodeRED by Crisis24 .

The cybersecurity incident was targeted and was strictly contained within the OnSolve CodeRED environment. While it didn’t impact anything outside of the alert system, it does raise some concerns about what information hackers might have access to.

“Unfortunately, I think going forward in the future, this is something that we’re just going to have to learn to live with,” said Harrisburg Mayor Derick Wenck.

As more services move online, more of your information could be at risk, no matter how secure the provider is. Emergency text notification systems are no different.

Mayor Wenck said the city received word of the cyber attack and worked with their

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