Story highlights The Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus computers are downThe FBI's Philadelphia field office is involved in the investigation(CNN) The computer network of the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus remained inaccessible Saturday after a Friday morning cyberattack locked lawmakers out of their own systems. Ransomware, a type of malware, encrypted the data on the Democrats' server and demanded an online payment in exchange for a key code to unlock the system, according to a statement issued Friday by Senate Democratic Leader Jay Costa. There is currently no indication that the caucus system was targeted or that any data has been compromised," Costa said in the statement. As of Saturday evening, the caucus' website remained down, as did the individual websites of all 16 state senators. Websites for Democratic members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives remained accessible Saturday.

Source: CNN March 05, 2017 01:07 UTC