In North Carolina, the Buncombe County Government announced on Thursday on its social media that it is experiencing an internet outage. The outage adversely affected the county's website and access to its IT resources.

As a fallout of this outage, Buncombe County employees were unable to access their phones, emails, and other network platforms, which is likely to cause delays in employee responses to the public. The county's landfill and transfer station was only able to accept cash and not online payments, hampering the efficiency of the government office. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page