The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the 50 largest cities in the US, has been hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that affected the city government’s network and brought down official websites.
The attack, which took place on the night between Friday and Saturday, is currently being handled by the city’s IT team, which have managed to restore the city’s websites, a spokesperson told The Record.
IT teams are still working to recover impacted systems from backups.
The attack is believed to have impacted only a small portion of the city’s network. The intrusion could have had much more severe consequences if it had hit the city during a working day when most computers would have been turned on.
Staff hope to have at least a part of the city government’s computers up and running before employees arrive to work on Monday and restore full services during the coming week, Michelle Brooks, Communications Director for the city of Tulsa, said in a press release.
Tulsa, which is currently the 47th biggest city in the US based on population size, is just the latest in a long list of US cities that have suffered a ransomware attack.
While most incidents have previously hit smaller cities, ransomware gangs have sometimes also managed to infect the network of a larger metropolitan area, with the largest incidents being reported in Atlanta, Baltimore, ..
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