State of emergency declared in Oakland after ransomware attack

The City of Oakland has declared a state of emergency one week after a ransomware attack hampered local government operations. 

In a statement on Tuesday, interim City Administrator G. Harold Duffey said he was issuing the declaration “due to the ongoing impacts of the network outages resulting from the ransomware attack” that began February 8. 

“Oakland continues to experience a network outage that has left several non-emergency systems including phone lines within the City of Oakland impacted or offline,” Duffey …

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