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pcrowley@adirondackdailyenterprise.com A cyberattack that disrupted 911 dispatching in the Capital Region did not hit counties in northeastern New York, but it gave them pause. “It’s serious business, that’s for sure,” Essex County Emergency Services Director Don Jaquish said Wednesday. “When you shut down a 911 facility, there’s not a lot of options left for the people,” Franklin County Emergency Services Director Ricky Provost said. Clinton and Hamilton County emergency services directors also said their services were not affected. It was around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night that the ransomware attack took hold of the CAD (computer aided dispatch) system shared by Albany, Saratoga and Rensselaer counties, according to the Albany Times Union. Ransomware shuts down a system and holds it hostage until money is paid to whoever orchestrated the attack. Such attacks have done great damage in recent months to school districts and hospital systems, including the Universit

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