Bill Zielinski, the city’s chief information officer, told council members Monday during a public safety committee meeting, that monitoring is ongoing to see...
“The city cannot comment on specific details related to the method or means of the attack, the mode of remediation or potential communications with the party launching the attack,” Zielinski said. “Doing so risks impeding the investigation or exposing critical information that can potentially be exploited by the attacker.”
Monday marked the first time outside of news releases the city publicly addressed the infiltration that caused widespread system outages. The attack disrupted several city departments, including causing the municipal courts to close; stopping residents from paying their water bills online; and forcing first responders to use radios, pens and paper to respond to and keep track of emergency calls.
“We seem to have a lot of instances with public safety, and it may need to be that that’s separated,” she said. “I hope that we’ll begin to look at that after we recover from this incident.”
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