Cyberattack crashes New York state bill drafting system
The New York Legislative Bill Drafting Commission suffered a cyberattack on Wednesday, downing its bill drafting system, ABC News reported.
Composed of two commissioners, the office supports the state legislature in drafting legislation, such as conducting research and printing legislative documents for lawmakers at the state capitol in Albany.
Gov. Kathy Hochul deployed cybersecurity officials to investigate after being briefed on the incident, she told WNYC radio.
“We have to go back to the more antiquated system we had in place from 1994,” Hochul told WNYC. “You know this happened very, very early in the morning and so we’ve been on top of this.”
Hochul said she doesn’t expect the cyberattack to delay finalizing the state’s budget.
“Our understanding right now is that it will take a little bit longer to deal with the legislative side of it because a lot of data is included in the computers,” she said.
The governor said she didn’t know whether the attack was politically motivated and didn’t name the attacker.
State officials were not immediately available to provide additional information.
