A cybersecurity expert warns property owners to protect themselves after hackers hit Tarrant Appraisal District with ransomware

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Cybersecurity experts like Martin Yarborough are warning property owners across Tarrant County. "I would be monitoring my credit," Yarborough said."I would immediately go in and change any financial passwords that I had set up, either on bank accounts or bill pay. I would make my passwords very complex."

"I am surprised that safeguards were not put into place to prevent or at least mitigate the chances of a ransomware infection," Yarborough said."Not knowing the specifics, I don't know how the hackers got in, but more than likely they got into the same mechanism that they did last year or two years ago."

Crouch said he is concerned about the timing of the new breach, which comes just weeks before TAD's April 15 deadline to send notices to property owners.

 

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