St. Lucie County clerk website compromise causes redirects
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The St. Lucie County Clerk and Comptroller's externally hosted public website was compromised July 7, 2026, causing an hours-long homepage outage and redirecting some links to an unauthorized third-party site. Staff removed a malicious script and restored the site from a known-good backup; the clerk confirmed the compromise July 8, reported no evidence of access to internal systems or their data, and warned of possible slower performance during database re-indexing.
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