SOUTHWICK – Town officials are asking residents who have signed up for CodeRED emergency notifications to change their passwords after the system was the target of a cyberattack.

“We didn’t lose any of our ability to contact our residents,” said Fire Department Chief Richard Stefanowicz about the service being hacked last week.

CodeRED is a cloud-based platform used by city, county, and state agencies to send emergency alerts via voice calls, SMS, email, mobile app notifications and national alerting systems.

During the attack, multiple media sources reported that data was stolen, including names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords.

Stefanowicz said that only those residents who have accounts with CodeRED, or used the CodeRED application, should change their pass

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