CodeRED Emergency System Attacked

The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office has taken measures to transition our CodeRED emergency system following a recent cyberattack and data breach that has impacted hundreds of agencies nationwide.

CodeRED is a critical notification system used to deliver time-sensitive alerts during severe weather events, public safety threats, and other emergencies.

CodeRED has reported the impacted dataset may contain contact information of CodeRED users such as: name, address, email address, phone numbers, and/or associated passwords used to create user profiles for alerts. If the same password is used by system users for any other personal or business accounts, those passwords should be changed

The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office has a plan for notification redundancy. During this transition, partner agencies with emergency alerting capabilities will issue Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) on our behalf...

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