Suffolk Civil Service Online Applications Will Be Back Up Friday: Report

HAUPPAUGE, NY — Suffolk officials are expected to relaunch on Friday online civil service applications and the accompanying electronic payments, which have been down since the cyberattack on Sept. 8, Newsday reported.

While Suffolk's Department of Human Resources, Personnel, and Civil Service's site has been down, officials have allowed applicants to print out an application in PDF form from the county’s contingency website and they have been either mailed or hand-delivered.

County officials said that the cyberattack "has impacted online applications," but the county has held 120 exams for nearly 7,700 test takers, Newsday reported.

Online applications that will open Friday include the police exam, consumer affairs technician, public safety dispatcher, water treatment plant operator trainee, and environmental educator, the outlet reported.

County Executive Steve Bellone said officials have been making "significant progress in our recovery efforts," and called the return of online applications "a major milestone in our rolling restoration of services.”

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Suffolk government's web-based applications were breached on Sept. 8 in what officials later described as a ransomware attack. Officials announced late last month that the driver’s license numbers of nearly 500,000 people, who were issued violations in the county's police district, meaning the area patrolled by Suffolk police outside villages, were possibly exposed.

The county has made credit counseling services available to those affected.

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