Breaking: Dallas websites affected by outages, possible ransomware attack
Dallas officials say the city was hit with a likely ransomware attack, impacting 311, municipal court and other departments Wednesday.
Dallas Chief Financial Officer Jack Ireland sent a message to the mayor and City Council on Wednesday saying “a number of servers have been compromised” due to the attack. He didn’t specify which servers or specific city services have been impacted. “The team is actively working to isolate the ransomware to prevent its spread, to remove the ransomware from infected servers, and to restore any services currently impacted,” Ireland said. A statement from the city Wednesday afternoon said “the impact on the delivery of city services to its residents is limited.”the department’s website is down due to an outage affecting the city about 12:40 p.m. The outage doesn’t appear to be affecting 911 calls.
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