IowaWORKS.gov Website Restored, Job and Work Search Services Resume
Jul 19, 2022
DES MOINES – The IowaWORKS.gov website that was recently impacted by a website outage has been restored, Iowa Workforce Development announced. The outage, caused by a cyberattack on third-party vendor Geographic Solutions Inc. (GSI), was resolved after…
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