Tyler Technologies, one of the largest service provider to state and local governments, was hit in a ransomware attack that disrupted its operations.
Tyler Technologies, one of the largest service provider to state and local governments, was hit in a ransomware attack that disrupted its operations.
Plano, Texas-based Tyler Technologies, one of the largest service provider to state and local governments, was hit in a ransomware attack.
Plano, Texas-based Tyler Technologies provides software services for government, including for resource planning, courts and public safety, fleet management, education, permitting and use. The election officials used this software to share election results with the public. Tyler was the 7th largest public company in Dallas-Fort Worth last year, with revenue of $1.1 billion.
A maintenance notice saying it was offline was put up on tylertech.com to the users accessing the page.
“Our Tyler Technologies corporate website is temporarily unavailable. We are aware of the issue and are working to bring the site back online. Please check back soon.”
According to the statement by Chief Information Officer Matt Bieri, the company became aware that an unauthorized party gained access to some of the internal phone and information systems on September 23.
As soon as the incident came under the limelight, the access to external systems we're shut down, and an investigation began. The company has also employed IT security and forensics experts outside, to conduct a detailed review and help them to restore the affected equipment securely. The company notified law enforcement and are executing enhanced monitoring systems.
“At this time and based on the evidence available to us to-date, all indications are that the impact of this incident is limited to our internal network and phone systems, ” added Beiri.
He also said that no client data, client servers or hosted systems were affected. Taylor Technologies refused to speak about how the intrusion is affecting its customers. The outage has impacted several readers working in IT roles at local government systems that rely on Tyler Tech to pay their water bills or court payments.
BleepingComputer reported on Wednesday that RansomExx ransomware operators are responsible for the attack on Tyler Technologies.
provides software services for government, including for resource planning, courts and public safety, fleet management, education, permitting and use. The election officials used this software to share election results with the public. Tyler was the 7th largest public company in Dallas-Fort Worth last year, with revenue of $1.1 billion.
A maintenance notice saying it was offline was put up on tylertech.com to the users accessing the page.
“Our Tyler Technologies corporate website is temporarily unavailable. We are aware of the issue and are working to bring the site back online. Please check back soon.”
According to the statement by Chief Information Officer Matt Bieri, the company became aware that an unauthorized party gained access to some of the internal phone and information systems on September 23.
As soon as the incident came under the limelight, the access to external systems we're shut down, and an investigation began. The company has also employed IT security and forensics experts outside, to conduct a detailed review and help them to restore the affected equipment securely. The company notified law enforcement and are executing enhanced monitoring systems.
“At this time and based on the evidence available to us to-date, all indications are that the impact of this incident is limited to our internal network and phone systems, ” added Beiri.
He also said that no client data, client servers or hosted systems were affected. Taylor Technologies refused to speak about how the intrusion is affecting its customers. The outage has impacted several readers working in IT roles at local government systems that rely on Tyler Tech to pay their water bills or court payments.
BleepingComputer reported on Wednesday that RansomExx ransomware operators are responsible for the attack on Tyler Technologies.
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