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It took two weeks for city and real estate officials to develop a manual workaround to check for liens and record deeds after the May 7 attack crippled city systems, temporarily bottling up home sales.
As the city continues to recover from the attack, Goldstein said officials expect that 95 percent of workers will have access to their computers, electronic documents and emails by the end of the week. The city's information technology teams are restoring the shared serves that house workers' documents and make sure they are secure.
Since May 21st, a virus has shut down Philadelphia's online court system, bringing network access to a standstill. ... But there's little other information available: officials said that saying any more "could jeopardize the remediation process," but that they've contracted a cyber security firm to look into the problem.
The damage is particularly severe in housing law. When a mortgaging bank tries to repossess a house (known as foreclosure), a defendant may file for a postponement before it's sold, asking to delay the process while they gather information to fight the decision. But amid the outage, those postponement filings are in danger of being lost in the chaos -- meaning that Philadelphia's cybersecurity problems could cause someone to lose their home unnecessarily.
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