BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio – Belmont County 911 Director Brian Minder issued the following press release Nov. 25 regarding the CodeRED emergency notification hack that potentially exposed nearly 11,000 residents’ passwords and personal data to cybercriminals:
“Last week, Belmont County residents were notified by press release of a cybersecurity incident involving the OnSolve CodeRed system that is used to make emergency notifications to the public for various incidents such as evacuation notices, utility outages, water main breaks, fires, floods, chemical spills, and other critical incidents.
We were notified by the company that user data associated with the legacy OnSolve CodeRED platform was removed from their system. That impacted dataset may have contained contact information of OnSolve CodeRED users: name, address, email address, phone numbers, and/or associated passwords used to create user profiles for alerts.
Out of an abundance of caution, all residents who created an account with the CodeRED system and may have used the same password for any other personal or business accounts are urged to change those passwords immediately.
Belmont County has been granted access to an alternate emergency notification platform, CodeRed by Crisis24. This new system has been implemented and is now operational for issuing emergency alerts.
Residents may now enroll in the new platform. The Community Notification Enrollment page can be accessed via the link on our website at www.belmontcounty911.com or by texting Belmont to 24639 from a mobile device. Please note: Individuals who registered after March 31, 2025 will need to re-enroll, as the backup data used to restore accounts only included information prior to that date.
Further inquiries about the security incident itself should be referred to media@crisis24.com“
