BREAKING: The City of Dallas says security monitoring tools first spotted the attack on Wednesday morning. The Dallas Police Department website is currently down due to the breach.
The city released a statement confirming that a number of servers have been compromised with ransomware, impacting "several functional areas."The department had reverted to its backup system, radio, to dispatch officers in response to 911 calls instead of its computer assisted dispatch system.The DPD and Dallas Fire Rescue websites were both down, but the city says service to residents is unaffected.
Parts of the city's library site are also down. FOX 4 called the Dallas library staff, who told us services like getting a new library card were unavailable Wednesday because its system was down.A message from the city's Chief Financial Officer, Jack Ireland, obtained by FOX 4 explains the situation:
While the Dallas city manager is not making any public statements about this ransomware attack, city's Government Performance and Financial Management Committee Chair Cara Mendelsohn and Vice Chair Gay Donnell Willis told us in a joint statement:
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