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Data Breach Fallout Leaves Douglas County Without Full Emergency Alert Coverage As Fire Danger Rises

By Maggie Bryan | Denver7

The Douglas County Sheriff says his office is switching to Rave Alert to notify residents about local emergencies. The sheriff’s office ended its contract with CodeRED last month after a data breach.

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — As high fire danger and strong winds are expected along the Front Range on Wednesday, a critical resource used to alert Douglas County residents to emergencies, such as fire evacuations, is in the midst of a transition.

Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly said his office signed a new contract to provide emergency alerts through Rave Alert, an emergency alert system owned by Motorola. In November, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) terminated its contract with CodeRED, an emergency alert system, after the company experienced outages following a cyberattack.

Crisis24, the company that owns the CodeRED platform, confirmed that data, including names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords of users signed up for alerts, may have been leaked to hackers.

In November, Sheriff Weekly told Denver7 he was frustrated with the company’s lack of transparency about the outage. He said his office was not contacted by Crisis24 until deputies tried to send out a CodeRED alert to residents about a prescribed burn south of Larkspur.

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