The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office has taken measures to transition our CodeRED emergency system
following a recent cyberattack and data breach that has impacted hundreds of agencies nationwide.
CodeRED is a critical notification system used to deliver time-sensitive alerts during severe weather
events, public safety threats, and other emergencies.

CodeRED has reported the impacted dataset may contain contact information of CodeRED users such as:
name, address, email address, phone numbers, and/or associated passwords used to create user profiles
for alerts. If the same password is used by system users for any other personal or business accounts,
those passwords should be changed
The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office has a plan for notification redundancy. During this transition, partner
agencies with emergency alerting capabilities will issue Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
(IPAWS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) on our behalf.
We encourage residents to take the following steps:
• Change any usernames or passwords to other personal or business accounts similar to those used for
CodeRED profiles
• Ensure Emergency Alerts are turned ON in phone settings
• Follow Wadena County Sheriff’s Office and your local public safety agencies on Facebook
• Maintain multiple ways to receive alerts, such as NOAA Weather Radio and local news outlets
The CodeRED provider has decommissioned the current platform. CodeRED has reported there is no
evidence that any user information has been used to carry out identity theft or fraud.
We appreciate your patience and cooperation as we work diligently to provide rapid emergency
communication systems.