{"id":209523,"date":"2026-02-03T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/mcduffie-county-halts-electronic-payments-due-to-cybersecurity-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:00:11","slug":"mcduffie-county-halts-electronic-payments-due-to-cybersecurity-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/mcduffie-county-halts-electronic-payments-due-to-cybersecurity-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"McDuffie County halts electronic payments due to cybersecurity incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrdw.com\/2026\/02\/03\/mcduffie-county-halts-electronic-payments-due-cybersecurity-incident\/\">McDuffie County halts electronic payments due to cybersecurity incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrdw.com\/2026\/02\/03\/mcduffie-county-halts-electronic-payments-due-cybersecurity-incident\/\">https:\/\/www.wrdw.com\/2026\/02\/03\/mcduffie-county-halts-electronic-payments-due-cybersecurity-incident\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-03 09:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wrdw.com\">www.wrdw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW\/WAGT) &#8211; The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating a cybersecurity incident that lead McDuffie County to stop all electronic payments, according to county officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Jan. 29, county officials discovered what is believed to be a cybersecurity phishing incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the incident resulted in an electronic payment being sent to an unintended banking institution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McDuffie County Administration notified the McDuffie County Sheriff\u2019s Office, which notified the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say no one\u2019s personal identifiable information (PII) has been compromised. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The funds that were sent due to the cyber incident were recovered on the morning of Jan. 31 by McDuffie County, officials say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the county will be halting all electronic payments until further notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WRDW\/WAGT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrdw.com\/2026\/02\/03\/mcduffie-county-halts-electronic-payments-due-cybersecurity-incident\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDuffie County halts electronic payments due to cybersecurity incident https:\/\/www.wrdw.com\/2026\/02\/03\/mcduffie-county-halts-electronic-payments-due-cybersecurity-incident\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-03 09:30:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wrdw-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/XGEIFDY4LBHHJFMGV6WNX3GEIY.jpg?auth=0c7655e619393c7ec9482ac91b96ed86fc736bf279e72986745ab7bb4a67f1c8&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-209523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209525,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209523\/revisions\/209525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}