Carbon County officials provided additional information on a cyber attack that targeted the court system last year.

On Thursday, Commissioners’ Chairman Michael Sofranko said in response to an article published on Saturday on the August cyber attack, that the county contacted the FBI, FEMA, Homeland Security, the Northeast Anti-Terrorist Task Force and the Pennsylvania State Computer Crime Lab after identifying that the court computer system had been compromised.

Sofranko, who was not on the board at the time of the cyber attack, said that the county also spoke with their insurance company and that a report was completed and provided back to the county.

“Those initiatives that needed to be put in place and what had to take place was done at that time,” he said, adding that there will be no further comment by the county on the matter or the report, citing attorney-client confidentiality.

After the meeting, Sofranko clarified that the report in question was completed by the insurance company’s attorney and added that last week’s discussion referred to an in-house after action report that was not completed and not the official report that the county received.

Earlier this month, Sheriff Daniel Zeigler reported that his office was still trying to rebuild after the cyber attack, noting that servers were compromised, files were lost, sheriff sales were delayed, and programs that were in the process of being implemented were now on hold.

He said that his office was hit hard and felt that he should have been included in discussions on the cyber attack.

District Attorney Michael Greek also felt the county should have included his office in the event criminal charges needed to be brought against the culprit.

His office wasn’t hit as hard as the sheriff’s but faced disruptions as a result of other court offices having problems because of the compromise.