Mat-Su declares emergency due to cyberattack
The declaration allows officials to tap borough reserves set aside for emergencies but also request funding from the
The borough also holds "cyberattack" insurance, IT director
Wyatt said organizations like Mat-Su typically spend
He provided an update on the situation: Borough email is coming back online slowly; financial records initially thought lost can be largely recovered, though possibly a year back at the most recent; and the popular MyProperty site is online, but without real-time updated information.
Walsh warned borough employees who did personal or financial business on the agency's network to change their passwords.
He repeated the estimate that it will be three weeks before online functions at the borough return to something resembling normalcy.
The city of
Officials there said Tuesday that it's likely
"We're going that same direction," public information officer
The city's phone system wasn't damaged by the attack, Ferko said, but it did knock offline servers, emails and all "computer infrastructure."
Emergency services remain unchanged in terms of the level of response to the public, she said, but staffers can't access accounts such as water bills or slip fees at the harbor.
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