Willis’s office says Trump case unaffected by Fulton County hack

Officials in Fulton County, Ga., confirmed a recent cybersecurity attack in the county will not impact its election subversion case against former President Trump.

Fulton County officials confirmed Monday that widespread technological outages impacted the county government’s phone lines, the court system and tax system, including for marriage and firearm licenses. County Chair Robb Pitts said the outage came from a cybersecurity incident, which is being investigated by law enforcement.

The county has frequently made national headlines in recent months after District Attorney Fani Willis charged former President Trump and 18 others for violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The defendants have been accused of taking part in a scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in the in the Peach State.

Willis’s office confirmed the case is not affected, writing in a statement shared by The Associated Press: “All material related to the election case is kept in a separate, highly secure system that was not hacked and is designed to make any unauthorized access extremely difficult if not impossible.”

Operations, however, were “drastically” affected by the electronic court filing outage, the prosecutors’ office added, per the AP.

The district attorney’s office said the Atlanta Police Department was not sending emails to or opening emails from its office to protect its own system. The FBI office in Atlanta confirmed it is in contact with Fulton County officials but did not expand on the details.

County spokesperson Jessica Corbitt said officials could not provide an estimate on when the outage will be fixed, according to the AP.

The Associated Press contributed.