SLED Cyber Unit Probes Spartanburg County Network Outage After 2 Prior Attack Waves
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Updated · FITSNews · Jun 12
SLED Cyber Unit Probes Spartanburg County Network Outage After 2 Prior Attack Waves
1 articles · Updated · FITSNews · Jun 12
Summary
SLED’s S.C. Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity unit is actively investigating a Spartanburg County government “internet outage,” an unusual step for a disruption described only in limited official detail.
Wednesday afternoon reports showed the outage had reached the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, and by Friday morning at least one department still could not check active warrants, according to messages cited by FITSNews.
The county’s network has faced repeated cyber trouble before: employees described near-daily “deliberate attacks” in August 2025, and an April 2023 attack allegedly spread from a corrupted flash drive and encrypted files with a .medusa extension.
Millions of dollars have already gone into recovery from earlier incidents, underscoring the risk that this latest outage could be more than a routine service failure.